Pennsylvania Act 1923-101 — CITIES, ACQUISITION OF PARK LAND

Act text

CITIES, ACQUISITION OF PARK LAND
                  Act of May 3, 1923, P.L. 135, No. 101               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the acquisition of land for park purposes by any
        city in this Commonwealth in sections not entirely built up;
        limiting time for condemnation by councils, or condemnation
        or purchase by park commissioners, after same has been placed
        on city plan for park purposes by ordinance of councils or
        action of park commissioners; and providing for removal from
        city plan upon failure to condemn or purchase within time
        specified herein.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 4701 of Act 317 of 1931 provided
            that Act 101 is repealed insofar as it relates to third
            class cities.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That wherever any park or
     parkway may hereafter be superimposed upon the confirmed plan of
     the streets or parks of any city of this Commonwealth, in
     sections not entirely built up, by ordinance of councils or by
     appropriate action of the park commissioners thereof, unless an
     ordinance actually appropriating the land within the lines of
     said park or parkway to public use be duly passed by councils
     thereof, or said land be acquired by the park commissioners, in
     accordance with existing laws, within three years from the
     passage of said ordinance or action of the park commissioners
     superimposing said plan upon said land, said ordinance or action
     of the park commissioners superimposing said plans upon said
     land shall be void and of no effect in regard to said land, and
     said plan shall be automatically removed from said land as if it
     had never been placed thereon, nor shall any plan again be
     superimposed on said land without an accompanying ordinance
     condemning same to public use.
        Section 2.  That wherever any park or parkway may have been
     heretofore superimposed upon the confirmed plan of the streets
     or parks of any city of this Commonwealth, in sections not
     entirely built up, by ordinance of councils or by appropriate
     action of the park commissioners thereof, unless an ordinance
     actually appropriating the land within the lines of said park or
     parkway to public use be duly passed by councils thereof, or
     said land be acquired by the park commissioners, in accordance
     with existing laws within one year from the approval of this
     act, said ordinance or action of the park commissioners
     superimposing said plan upon said land shall be void and of no
     effect in regard to said land, and said plan shall be
     automatically removed from said land as if it had never been
     placed thereon, no shall any plan again be superimposed on said
     land without an accompanying ordinance condemning same to public
     use: Provided, however, That three years shall have elapsed
     between the passage of the ordinance or action of the park
     commissioners superimposing said plan upon said land, and the
     removal of the plan from said land in accordance with this act.