Pennsylvania Act 1915-398 — PARKS AND PARKWAYS, PLANNING IN FIRST AND SECOND CLASS CITIES

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PARKS AND PARKWAYS, PLANNING IN FIRST AND SECOND CLASS CITIES
                  Act of Jun. 7, 1915, P.L. 894, No. 398              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to and regulating the plotting by cities of the first
        class of parks and parkways in built-up sections thereof.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That when a city of the first
     class shall hereafter superimpose upon the confirmed plan of
     streets of said city any park or parkway, in an entirely built-
     up section of said city, the placing of such park or parkway on
     the city plan shall be considered as an appropriation to public
     use of the land within the lines of said park or parkway, at the
     expiration of five years from the date of confirmation of the
     plan showing such park or parkway by the board of surveyors of
     said city; with the same effect as if the land within the
     boundary of said park had been appropriated for public park
     purposes, or the said parkway had been opened to public use, by
     ordinance of councils, unless an ordinance actually
     appropriating said land to public use shall have been previously
     passed, or the ordinance placing such park or parkway on the
     city plan shall have been previously repealed.
        Section 2.  Where any park or parkway has been heretofore
     superimposed upon the confirmed plan of streets of such city, in
     an entirely built-up section, such superimposing shall be an
     appropriation for public use of the land within the lines of
     said park or parkway, at the expiration of three years from the
     approval of this act.
        Section 3.  From the date of confirmation of the plan of said
     park or parkway, in an entirely built-up section of said city,
     until the expiration of said period of five years, or until the
     passage of an ordinance to appropriate to public use the land
     within the lines of such park or parkway, the owners of said
     land may alter their buildings thereon, in accordance with plans
     approved by the Bureau of Building Inspection and other
     municipal authorities having jurisdiction thereof; and, upon the
     assessment of damages for the appropriation of their property to
     public use, they shall be entitled to compensation therefor,
     including the buildings so altered, computed as of the date of
     said appropriation.