Pennsylvania Act 1871-254 — GIVING POWERS TO COURTS TO FIX STATE ROAD WIDTHS

Act text

GIVING POWERS TO COURTS TO FIX STATE ROAD WIDTHS
                  Act of May 22, 1871, P.L. 272, No. 254              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to state roads, giving the courts power to fix their
        width.

        Section 1.  Width of State roads
        In all cases where the width of a State road, laid out under
     and by virtue of the provisions of an act of assembly
     authorizing the same, has not been fixed and determined either
     by the action of the Legislature or by the courts of the proper
     county wherein the report of the commissioners appointed to view
     and lay out has been presented and ordered to be filed, the
     several courts of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth are
     hereby authorized and empowered, in their respective counties,
     upon the presentation of a petition for that purpose, to fix the
     width of all such roads; such width not to exceed fifty feet in
     any case.  1871, May 22, P.L. 272, Sec. 1.