Pennsylvania Act 1915-251 — MUNICIPALITY COUNCILMEN EXCLUDED FROM BEING SCHOOL DIRECTORS

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MUNICIPALITY COUNCILMEN EXCLUDED FROM BEING SCHOOL DIRECTORS
                  Act of May 28, 1915, P.L. 579, No. 251              Cl. 65
                                  AN ACT

     Validating annexations and extensions of the limits of boroughs
        and incorporated towns made prior to the twenty-second day of
        April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three,
        notwithstanding a failure to comply with all the requirements
        of the act of Assembly governing annexations and extensions
        of boroughs or corporate town limits in force at the time of
        said annexation or extension, and providing for the filing of
        a plot or plan of lots, or part, so annexed, in the office of
        the clerk of the court of quarter sessions, when the same has
        not originally been done.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all annexations of lots
     or outlots, or extensions of the limits, of any borough or
     incorporated town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, made by
     ordinance by the burgess and town council of said borough or
     incorporated town prior to April twenty-second, one thousand
     nine hundred and three, are hereby validated and made good in
     law, although the said borough authorities have not filed a plot
     or plan of such extension or annexation in the office of the
     clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, or
     otherwise complied with the act or acts of Assembly governing
     the annexation of territory or extension of the limits of
     boroughs in force at the time of said annexation or extension:
     Provided, nevertheless, That such annexation or extension has
     been recognized by the authorities of such borough or
     incorporated town, by the assessment and collection of taxes on
     the annexed or extended territory, for a period of not less than
     ten years from the date of said annexation or extension.
        Section 2.  In order that a proper record of the same shall
     be made, when no plan has been filed in the office of the clerk
     of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, it shall
     be the duty of the council of any borough or incorporated town,
     upon the application of one or more of the taxpayers of any
     tract or part of land annexed, as above set forth, to have said
     annexed or extended territory duly surveyed, and a plot or plan
     of the said annexed or extended part filed in the office of the
     clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county,
     within sixty days after said application is filed with said
     council, with the same effect as if it had originally been filed
     therein: Provided, That any one affected by such survey shall
     have the right to file exceptions, within thirty days
     thereafter, to said plot or plan, in order that the same may be
     corrected by the said court if any error shall be made to appear
     in the boundaries of the plot so filed.