Pennsylvania Act 1923-192 — SECOND CLASS CITIES, AIRPORTS

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SECOND CLASS CITIES, AIRPORTS
                  Act of May 21, 1923, P.L. 296, No. 192              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and empowering the cities of the second class in
        this Commonwealth to acquire by lease, purchase, or
        condemnation proceedings any land within or without the
        limits of said cities, but within the limits of the counties
        in which such cities are located, for the purpose of
        establishing and maintaining municipal airdromes or aviation
        landing fields; providing for the procedure in cases of
        condemnation, and the extent of title acquired; authorizing
        the lease by the cities of portions thereof to individuals or
        corporations upon such terms as may be fixed, and the lease
        thereof to the Government of the United States upon nominal
        rental; and empowering said cities to operate and maintain
        said fields jointly with any county within which said city is
        situate, where the county is empowered to operate and
        maintain an airdrome or aviation landing field.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all cities of the second
     class within this Commonwealth are hereby authorized and
     empowered to acquire by lease, purchase, or condemnation
     proceedings any land lying either within or without the
     limitations of said city, but within the limitations of the
     county in which such city is located, which, in the judgment of
     the corporate authorities thereof, may be necessary and
     desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining
     municipal airdromes or aviation landing fields.
        Section 2.  The proceedings for the condemnation of lands
     under the provisions of this act, and for the assessment of
     damages for property taken, injured, or destroyed, shall be
     conducted in the manner provided by an act, entitled "An act
     authorizing and empowering the several cities of this
     Commonwealth to purchase or acquire by condemnation proceedings,
     such real estate, within the city limits, as they may need, upon
     which to erect or construct municipal buildings, fire engine
     houses, gas and electric light works, and within or without the
     city limits, upon which to erect hospitals, water works, and
     poorhouses, and for the purposes of a poor farm," approved
     twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred
     and three (Pamphlet Laws, sixty-three), as amended by the act,
     approved the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred
     and seven (Pamphlet Laws, twelve). The title acquired by the
     city exercising the power of condemnation shall be a title in
     fee-simple.
        Section 3.  Any city acquiring land under the provisions of
     this act may lease the same, or part thereof, to any individual
     or corporation desiring to use the same for the purpose of
     landing or starting an aeroplane therefrom or for other aviation
     purposes, on such terms and subject to such conditions and
     regulations as may be provided; and any such city may enter into
     a contract, in the form of a lease, providing for the use of
     said land, or any part thereof, by the Government of the United
     States, for the use by said Government of said land for aviation
     mail delivery, or other aviation purposes, upon nominal rental
     or without consideration.
        Section 4.  Any city acquiring land thereunder may operate
     and maintain said municipal airdrome or aviation landing field
     jointly with any county within which such city is located,
     whenever said county under the authority of any law has the
     power to use county land or to acquire land for the purpose of
     maintaining an airdrome or aviation landing field, upon such
     terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the corporate
     authorities of the city and the county commissioners of the
     county.