Pennsylvania Act 1925-326 — WATER METERS REQUIRED IN FIRST CLASS CITIES

Act text

WATER METERS REQUIRED IN FIRST CLASS CITIES
                  Act of May 12, 1925, P.L. 612, No. 326              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To enable any city of the first class owning and operating its
        own water works to require a water-meter to be installed upon
        every property supplied from such water works at the expense
        of the owner thereof, and providing that the cost of and
        charge for installing such water-meter shall be a lien upon
        such property with the same priority and enforceable in the
        same manner as a municipal claim.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the
     passage of this act the municipal authorities of every city of
     the first class within this Commonwealth which now owns and
     operates or may hereafter acquire or construct and operate its
     own water works shall have the power to require the owner or
     owners of every separate property supplied from such water works
     to install or permit the installation of a water-meter or meters
     upon and for such property.
        Section 2.  The municipal authorities of any city of the
     first class aforesaid may require the owner of every property
     upon and for which a water-meter is installed to pay the
     reasonable cost of and charge for installing such meter at such
     times and in such amounts as the said authorities shall
     prescribe. Such cost and charge shall be a lien upon the
     property upon and for which the water-meter shall have been
     installed.
        Section 3.  Liens for cost of and charges for installing
     water-meters shall have the same priority and shall be
     enforceable in the same manner as municipal claims are now
     entitled to have and to be enforced by law.