Pennsylvania Act 1927-142 — PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, VACATED

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PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, VACATED
                  Act of Apr. 7, 1927, P.L. 169, No. 142              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to streets, lanes or alleys that were originally laid
        out on plans of lots, and which have been vacated as public
        highways in whole or in part, and thereafter closed as
        private ways; and limiting the time within which actions may
        be brought.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That where any street, lane
     or alley laid out by any person or persons in any village or
     town plot, or in any plans of lots on lands owned or controlled
     by such person or persons, shall have been accepted as, or in
     any manner become, a public highway, and the said street, lane
     or alley or any part thereof has been or shall hereafter be duly
     and lawfully vacated as a public highway, and has been or shall
     hereafter be actually closed upon the ground, any action, at law
     or equity, by any person, to enforce any right in said street,
     lane or alley so vacated, or easement in the ground embraced
     within the boundaries of the same, by reason of ownership of, or
     interest in, any lot or lots in said plan not abutting on the
     vacated portion of the said street, lane or alley, shall be
     brought within one year after the vacation of said street, lane
     or alley as a public highway and the closing of the same upon
     the ground, and not thereafter: Provided, That any person who
     would be sooner barred by this act shall not be thereby barred
     for six months from the approval hereof.
        Section 2.  From and after the expiration of a period of one
     year after the actual closing upon the ground of a street, lane
     or alley, or part thereof, vacated as mentioned in the preceding
     section, without the bringing of any such action as in said act
     mentioned, the designation of said street, lane or alley, or
     part thereof, upon said plan, shall have no force or effect, and
     all easements in the ground covered by said street, lane or
     alley, or part thereof, of every nature and kind whatsoever, and
     either public or private, as far as the same shall have been
     vacated and closed as aforesaid, shall cease and determine,
     except as to such lot or lots which do actually abut upon the
     vacated and closed portion thereof.