Pennsylvania Act 1903-64 — CITIES MAY ACQUIRE REAL ESTATE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES

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CITIES MAY ACQUIRE REAL ESTATE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES
                  Act of Mar. 26, 1903, P.L. 63, No. 64               Cl. 11
                                  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 purpose
        of a poor-farm.

        Section 1.  Power of cities to purchase land for municipal
     buildings or purposes, for present or future use
        The several cities of this Commonwealth shall have power to
     acquire by purchase any real estate, within the city limits,
     which they may need, upon which to erect and construct necessary
     municipal buildings, fire engine houses, gas and electric light
     works, and, within or without the city limits, within the same
     county, sufficient real estate, for present and future use, upon
     which to erect workhouses or houses of detention, hospitals,
     waterworks, poorhouses, for the purpose of a poor farm, garbage
     and incinerating furnaces, and sewage disposal works, or plants
     with the necessary filter-beds, appliances, drains, and sewers,
     and for any extensions thereof; and in case they cannot agree
     with the owner or owners as to the price thereof, or in case the
     owner or owners thereof are absent, or are incapacitated from
     any cause, or are unknown, by reason of which no agreement can
     be made it shall be lawful for each respective city, and the
     same is hereby authorized and empowered, to take and
     appropriate, for any of the said purposes and any extensions
     thereof, all such necessary and sufficient real estate, within
     or without the city limits, as the case may be, after an
     ordinance shall have been passed providing for such taking and
     appropriation.  1903, March 26, P.L. 63, Sec. 1;  1907, March
     14, P.L. 12, Sec. 1.