Pennsylvania Act 1917-250 — FIRST CLASS CITIES AUTHORIZED TO REFUND MONEY

Act text

FIRST CLASS CITIES AUTHORIZED TO REFUND MONEY
                  Act of Jul. 5, 1917, P.L. 682, No. 250              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing cities to refund moneys paid by property owners into
        their treasuries, when a court of competent jurisdiction
        shall have determined that there was no liability for such
        payment when made.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 4701 of Act 317 of 1931 provided
            that Act 250 is repealed insofar as it relates to third
            class cities.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any city,
     borough, or incorporated town, within this Commonwealth, shall
     have, under existing laws, paved, curbed, and guttered, or
     otherwise improved, its highways, or any of them, or has opened
     or graded or acquired or condemned property in or along its
     highways, or any of them, at the expense in whole or in part of
     the owners of property bounding and abutting thereon, and such
     owners or any number of them shall have paid the assessments,
     levied against them by such city, borough, or incorporated town,
     or by viewers, for such improvement, into the respective
     treasury,--the said cities, boroughs, or incorporated towns are
     hereby authorized and empowered to refund to the said owners, or
     to their heirs or assigns, the amount of the assessment thus
     paid by them, if it shall have been determined by any proceeding
     at law or in equity by a court of competent jurisdiction that
     the owners of property bounding or abutting on said highway or
     highways were not liable for the payment of such improvement at
     the time such improvement was ordered by the council of said
     cities, boroughs, or incorporated towns to be made.
        (1 amended Mar. 21, 1919, P.L.20, No.11)