Pennsylvania Act 1921-240 — RELATING TO PAYMENTS FOR HIGHWAYS

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RELATING TO PAYMENTS FOR HIGHWAYS
                      Act of 1921, P.L. 519, No. 240                  Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the reimbursement of counties by boroughs and
        townships, when the county has contracted with the State
        Highway Department for the payment of both the county's and
        the borough or township's share of the cost of constructing
        or improving a State or State-aid highway; authorizing
        counties to so contract; empowering boroughs and townships to
        incur indebtedness therefor; and authorizing an assessment of
        the borough's share on the abutting property.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever, under any law
     of this Commonwealth, a county and a borough, or a county and a
     township, may enter into a contract with the State Highway
     Department for the construction or improvement of a State or
     State-aid highway, such county may contract with the State
     Highway Department to pay the whole or such part of the cost
     thereof as is not paid by the Commonwealth. The county and the
     borough or the township where such improvements are made may
     contract for the reimbursement to the county, by the borough or
     township, of a part of the cost for which the county has
     contracted with the State Highway Department, under such terms
     as may be mutually agreed on.
        Section 2.  Any borough or township so contracting may incur
     such indebtedness, and issue interest bearing bonds therefor, as
     may be necessary to pay their share of the costs of such
     construction or improvement as agreed on in such contract,
     subject to the constitutional limitation of such indebtedness.
        Section 3.  Any borough so contracting may collect its share
     of the cost of such construction or improvement from the
     abutting property owner by an assessment on the foot-front, in
     accordance with the general law.