Pennsylvania Act 1907-271 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, CITIES, ANNEXATION OF LAND

Act text

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act, approved April twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred three, entitled "An act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city, and providing for the indebtedness of the same," providing for the preservation of rights of creditors and of liens, and for funding the debt of the municipality or school district annexed.

Compiler's Note: Section 4701 of Act 317 of 1931 provided that Act 271 is repealed insofar as relates to third class cities.

Section 4(2)(i) of Act 41 of 2022 repealed the act of April 28, 1903 (P.L.332, No.260), entitled "An act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city, and providing for the indebtedness of the same."

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases of the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city, under the provisions of an act of Assembly, approved the twenty-eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three, entitled "An act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city, and providing for the indebtedness of the same," all rights of creditors and all liens, and all rights of the municipality so annexed to enforce the payment of moneys due, or of contract liabilities, or of other claims or rights of property, existing at the time of such annexation, shall be preserved unimpaired to such annexed city, borough, or township; and such city, borough, or township, for the purpose of enforcing its rights and claims in the premises, and also of having prior rights and claims enforced against it, shall be deemed in law to continue in existence.

All moneys accruing, from time to time, from taxes levied prior to the annexation, and all assessments against private property for public improvements, for which the contractors shall have been paid, shall be applied to the indebtedness of the territory annexed; and it shall be lawful for the councils and mayor of the enlarged city to fund the debt of any municipality or school district so annexed, and, for so doing, to issue the bonds of the enlarged city, in accordance with existing laws applicable to said city, and to provide for an annual tax, upon the subjects of taxation within the limits of the annexed territory, sufficient to retire said bonds as they mature.