Pennsylvania Act 1925-403 — TRANSIT DEPARTMENT, SECOND CLASS CITIES

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TRANSIT DEPARTMENT, SECOND CLASS CITIES
                  Act of May 14, 1925, P.L. 740, No. 403              Cl. 11
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, approved the seventh day of March, one thousand nine
        hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws, twenty), entitled "An act for
        the government of cities of the second class," providing for
        the establishing by ordinance and regulating a Department of
        City Transit; defining the powers, duties, and jurisdiction
        of the department, and providing for its officers and
        employes.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That an additional executive
     department in the government of cities of the second class may
     be created by ordinance, to be known as the Department of City
     Transit, which shall be in charge of a City Transit Commission
     consisting of five (5) residents of the city to be appointed by
     the mayor, subject to the approval of council, one of whom shall
     be designated to serve from his appointment until January first,
     one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six; and one from his
     appointment until January first, one thousand nine hundred and
     twenty-seven; one from his appointment until January first, one
     thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight; one from his appointment
     until January first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine;
     and one from his appointment until January first, one thousand
     nine hundred and thirty. Their respective successors shall be
     appointed on the expiration of their respective terms to serve
     five (5) years. An appointment to fill a casual vacancy shall be
     only for the unexpired portion of the term. Three (3) of the
     members shall be a quorum. They may make regulations for their
     own organization and procedure consistent with the laws of this
     Commonwealth and the ordinances of the city. They shall serve
     without compensation and shall make annually to the mayor a
     report of their transactions and recommendations. They may
     employ a chief engineer and such other persons and employes as
     may be necessary, whose salaries, together with the necessary
     expenses of the commission, shall be provided for in the
     discretion of council by the proper appropriations and
     ordinances.
        Section 2.  The Department of City Transit shall have the
     power to design, construct, manage, administer, and supervise
     any and all transit facilities purchased, leased, located,
     constructed, or otherwise acquired, equipped, owned, maintained,
     used, or operated by such city. Such transit facilities shall
     include railways and extensions thereof for the transportation
     of persons and property over, under, upon, through, and across
     any street, highways, avenues, bridges, viaducts, rivers,
     waters, and public and private lands, or partly over, under,
     through, or across any or all of the same. They shall be taken
     to mean and include tunnels, subways, bridges, elevated
     structures, tracks, poles, wires, conduits, power houses,
     stations, lines for the transmission of power, car barns, shop
     yards, sidings, turnouts, switches, stations and approaches
     thereto, cars and motor equipment, and all works, buildings,
     appliances, and appurtenances necessary and convenient for the
     proper construction, equipment, maintenance, and operation of
     such transit facilities or any or more of them.
        Section 3.  It shall be the duty of the Department of City
     Transit to take the necessary action to enforce and carry into
     effect the laws of this Commonwealth and the ordinances of the
     city pertaining to transit facilities, as defined by this
     article.
        Section 4.  The Transit Commission shall from time to time
     make such recommendation to the council of the city as to them
     shall seem proper for the improvement and development of
     facilities for transportation of persons and property within
     such city.
        Section 5.  The engineers, draftsmen, designers, and other
     technical employes of said Department of City Transit may be
     appointed without regard to whether they are residents of such
     city or not.