Pennsylvania Act 1838-96 — PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER GRANTING CERTAIN POWERS TO AUTHORITIES

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PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER GRANTING CERTAIN POWERS TO AUTHORITIES
                  Act of Apr. 16, 1838, P.L. 626, No. 96              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Granting certain powers to the Authorities of the cities of
        Lancaster and Philadelphia, and for other purposes.

        Section 3.  City of Philadelphia; regulation of projections
     over sidewalks, streets, etc.; penalties
        It shall and may be lawful for the select and common councils
     of the City of Philadelphia, from time to time, by ordinance, to
     make and establish such and so many rules and regulations as to
     them may seem expedient, for the better regulation of porches,
     porticoes, benches, doorsteps, railings, bulk or jut windows,
     areas, cellar-doors and cellar windows, signs, sign-posts,
     boards, poles and frames, awnings, awning-posts, or other device
     or thing projecting over, under, into or otherwise occupying the
     sidewalks or other portion of any of the streets, lanes and
     alleys; and in relation to boxes, bales, barrels, hogsheads,
     crates or other articles or merchandise, lumber, coal, wood,
     ashes, building materials, or any other article or thing
     whatsoever placed in or upon any of the said footways, sidewalks
     or other portion of the said streets or alleys, and for the
     better protection and regulation of markets, market-stands and
     market-houses, and at the expense of the owner or owners of the
     property adjoining, to regulate, grade, pave and repave, curb
     and recurb, the said footways or sidewalks, and the said
     ordinances, rules and regulations to execute, under the
     direction or superintendence of such person or persons as they
     may authorize or appoint, and the same to enforce by suitable
     penalties, which penalties and expenses of paving and repaving,
     curbing and recurbing, as aforesaid, shall be recoverable before
     any alderman of said city, or before any court having
     jurisdiction, in the same manner that debts of like amount are
     by law recoverable.  1838, April 16, P.L. 626, Sec. 3.
        Compiler's Note:  Section 302(d) of Act 177 of 1988 provided
            that section 3 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
            with 15 Pa.C.S. § 1511 (relating to additional powers of
            certain public utility corporations).