Pennsylvania Act 1929-229 — MUNICIPAL CLAIMS, COLLECTION

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MUNICIPAL CLAIMS, COLLECTION
                 Act of Apr. 17, 1929, P.L. 527, No. 229              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the recovery and collection of municipal claims by
        action of assumpsit, without the necessity of entering liens
        for such claims, and repealing existing laws.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 4701 of Act 317 of 1931 provided
            that Act 229 is repealed insofar as it relates to third
            class cities.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in addition to the
     remedies provided by law for the filing of liens for the
     collection of municipal claims, including but not limited to
     water rates, sewer rates and the removal of nuisances, all
     cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, townships and bodies
     corporate and politic created as municipal authorities pursuant
     to law may proceed for the recovery and collection of all of the
     foregoing claims by action of assumpsit against the person or
     persons who were the owner or owners of the property at the time
     of the completion of the improvement, or at the time the water
     or sewer rates or the cost of the removal of nuisances first
     became payable notwithstanding the fact that there was a failure
     on the part of any such city, borough, town, township, or body
     politic and corporate created as a municipal authority pursuant
     to law, or its agents, to enter any such municipal claim as a
     lien against the property assessed for the improvement, or for
     the furnishing of water or sewer services and for the removal of
     nuisances and for the recovery of which the action of assumpsit
     was brought. Any such action in assumpsit shall be commenced
     either within six years after the completion of the improvement
     from which said claim arises or within six years after the water
     or sewer rates or the cost of abating a nuisance first became
     payable.
        (1 amended Mar. 9, 1970, P.L.162, No.62)
        Section 2.  This act shall extend to all municipal claims
     where the improvement was heretofore made, or to municipal
     claims for water or sewer rates or cost of abating a nuisance
     which heretofore became payable where the claim is not barred by
     the statute of limitations affecting actions of debt or
     assumpsit.
        (2 amended Mar. 9, 1970, P.L.162, No.62)