Pennsylvania Act 1929-409 — HIGHWAYS, CERTAIN STREETS AS

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HIGHWAYS, CERTAIN STREETS AS
                  Act of May 1, 1929, P.L. 1054, No. 409              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for assistance by the Commonwealth in the improvement,
        construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance of certain
        streets and highways in cities of the second class, second
        class A and third class; and for the assessment of benefits
        against owners of real estate abutting on the line of the
        improvement; and making an appropriation.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Department of
     Highways is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with
     cities of the second class, second class A, and third class
     providing for the improvement, construction, reconstruction
     and/or maintenance, in whole or in part, of the existing width,
     or of a lesser width, of any streets and highways in any such
     city which are not on the plan of the State highway system but
     which are continuations of State highways entering such cities,
     or running through such cities, or which furnish the shortest or
     most convenient route through such cities for the traveling
     public, and such agreements may provide that the improvement,
     construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance shall be done by
     the Department of Highways, or the city, or by contract let by
     the Department of Highways, or by the city, or by both, and that
     the Commonwealth shall, in either event, pay the whole or any
     portion of the cost of such improvement, construction,
     reconstruction and/or maintenance, the city to pay the remaining
     portion of such cost. Any city of the second class, second class
     A, or third class is hereby authorized to enter into any
     contract, as hereinbefore provided for, with the Department of
     Highways, and to expend the moneys of the city for such
     purposes. Any such agreement may also provide for the
     improvement, construction or reconstruction of a greater width
     of any such street or highway than that agreed to be paid for
     wholly or partly by the Commonwealth, and for the payment by the
     city, or by the assessment of benefits as hereinafter provided,
     or both, of the whole cost of any such additional width.
        Section 2.  Said cities may, with or without petition of
     abutting property owners in the manner provided by law for the
     paving and improvement of their streets and highways, provide
     for the payment of their share of the cost of any original
     paving, construction or improvement of any portion thereof, and
     the entire cost or any portion thereof of any additional width
     not thus paid for by the Commonwealth by an equal assessment on
     the foot front rule, including the expenses of the necessary
     drainage, against the owners of property abutting on the line of
     the improvement, or the city may pay the entire cost of any such
     improvement, construction or reconstruction not thus paid by the
     Commonwealth.
        Section 3.  Any such city is hereby authorized to incur or to
     increase its indebtedness by the issue and sale of obligations
     of the city, in the manner and subject to the limitations
     provided by law, for the purpose of improving, constructing or
     reconstructing any of its streets and highways in accordance
     with the provisions of this act.