Pennsylvania Act 1931-242 — MUNICIPALITIES, DIVIDING LINES

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MUNICIPALITIES, DIVIDING LINES
                 Act of Jun. 22, 1931, P.L. 672, No. 242              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the grading, curbing, draining, paving and/or
        macadamizing of highways, the center line of which
        constitutes the dividing line between a city and a borough,
        or a city and a township of the first class, or a borough and
        a township of the first class, and for the collection of the
        whole or part of the cost of such improvements by assessments
        against property abutting on the line of the improvement.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever the center line
     of any highway constitutes the dividing line between a city and
     a borough, or a city and a township of the first class, or a
     borough and a township of the first class, located in the same
     county, the council of such city, borough and the board of
     commissioners of such township may, where such improvement is
     through built up property or properties duly plotted and laid
     out in lots for building purposes, and where two-thirds of the
     combined frontage of the two sides petition for the improvement,
     enter into a contract providing for the grading, curbing,
     draining, paving and/or macadamizing of such highway. Such
     alterations and improvements shall be made under the supervision
     of the proper authorities of such city, borough or township, or
     by contract let by such city, borough or township, as may be
     provided for in the contract between the city and township.
        Section 2.  No ordinance or ordinances authorizing any such
     improvement, where the whole or any part of the cost of the
     improvement is to be assessed against abutting property, shall
     be finally adopted until the expiration of thirty days from the
     date of its introduction, and, in the meantime, copies thereof
     shall be published, once a week for two weeks, in one newspaper
     circulating in such city, borough and township immediately
     following the introduction thereof, and at least five copies
     thereof shall be posted along the line of the proposed
     improvement.
        Section 3.  The whole cost of such alterations and
     improvements, or any part thereof, as may be agreed upon in the
     contract between the city and township, may be collected from
     the owners of property within the city, borough, and within the
     township, abutting along the line of the improvement, by an
     equal assessment on the foot front. Any portion of such cost not
     assessed against abutting property shall be paid one-half by
     each of the municipal divisions joining in the improvement.
        Section 4.  Thirty days notice of assessments of the whole
     cost or part of the cost of any such improvement shall be given
     to each party assessed, either by service on the owner or his
     agent, or posted on the premises by the clerk or secretary of
     the city, borough or township making the improvement. If any
     assessment shall remain unpaid at the expiration of the notice,
     it shall be the duty of the city, borough or township solicitor,
     as the case may be, to collect the same, with interest from the
     time of the completion of the improvement, by action of
     assumpsit, or by a lien to be filed and collected in the same
     manner as municipal claims. When an owner has two or more lots
     against which there is an assessment for the same improvement,
     all of such lots shall be embraced in one claim.