Pennsylvania Act 1929-232 — PUBLIC ROADS, RETAINED AS PRIVATE ROADS

Act text

PUBLIC ROADS, RETAINED AS PRIVATE ROADS
                 Act of Apr. 17, 1929, P.L. 530, No. 232              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the retention of the route of any vacated public
        road, or portion thereof, as a private road.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever viewers,
     appointed by the court of quarter sessions to view and vacate
     any public road within this Commonwealth, shall find and report
     that there is no necessity for such public road, but shall
     recommend in their report that the route thereof, or of any
     portion thereof, be and remain a private road, upon the approval
     of their said report and the confirmation thereof by the court
     and the vacation of said public road, the court shall have power
     to enter a decree that the route of such abandoned public road,
     or any portion thereof, so recommended for a private road, shall
     be and become a private road, of the width of twenty-five feet,
     for the use and benefit of the owners of lands through or along
     which it passes, to be maintained and used as private roads are
     now maintained and used under existing laws.