Pennsylvania Act 1907-301 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, ROADS AND BRIDGES

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SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, ROADS AND BRIDGES
                  Act of Jun. 7, 1907, P.L. 444, No. 301              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Supplementary to an act, entitled "An act relating to roads,
        highways, and bridges," approved June thirteenth, one
        thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the several
        supplements thereto.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any public
     road--or turnpike, which, under existing laws, becomes a public
     road--is between two or more townships or on any division line
     between the same, in any county of this Commonwealth, has become
     useless, inconvenient, or burdensome, the court of quarter
     sessions of the county in which the said road is located shall
     have the authority, upon application to it by petition, signed
     by at least fifteen property owners of each of said townships,
     who are qualified electors therein, setting forth the facts, to
     inquire of and to change or vacate the whole or any part of said
     road, whenever the same shall have become useless, inconvenient,
     or burdensome; and the same court shall proceed therein, by
     views and viewers, in the manner provided for the laying out of
     roads and highways under existing laws.
        Section 2.  The said court shall also have authority not only
     on said petition, to change or vacate the whole or any part of
     the said road which has become useless, inconvenient, or
     burdensome, but shall have authority also, whenever requested in
     and by said petition, to lay a new road, in the manner provided
     under existing laws, located in whole or in part in any one or
     more of the townships mentioned in the first section of this
     act; said new road to take the place of the said road which has
     become useless, inconvenient, or burdensome.
        Section 3.  Whenever a new road is laid out, under the
     provisions of this act, the costs and expenses of laying out,
     opening, and fitting the same for travel, as well as the damages
     sustained by the owner or owners of land taken for the same, or
     through whose land the same may pass, shall be borne or paid by
     the several townships mentioned in the first section of this
     act, in such just and equitable proportions as the said court of
     quarter sessions, upon report of three disinterested persons
     appointed by the said court to view and assess the same, shall
     fix and determine.
        Section 4.  The costs of all proceedings, under the
     provisions of this act, shall be paid by the township or
     townships mentioned in the first section of this act, as the
     court shall determine and direct.
        Section 5.  The board of viewers to be appointed under this
     act shall consist of three disinterested persons.