Pennsylvania Act 1907-72 — PAVING SIDEWALKS IN RURAL DISTRICT FIRST CLASS CITIES REGULATED

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PAVING SIDEWALKS IN RURAL DISTRICT FIRST CLASS CITIES REGULATED
                  Act of Apr. 15, 1907, P.L. 86, No. 72               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To regulate the paving of sidewalks and setting curbstones in
        the rural districts of cities of the first class.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That when a majority of the
     property owners, or the owners of a majority of the feet
     frontage for a continuous distance of five hundred feet or more,
     on any one or both sides of any street, road, or lane used as a
     public highway, in cities of the first class, shall petition
     councils of said cities for a paved footway along the same, they
     shall state in their petition the kind of pavement wanted by
     them; and council shall, when said petition is received, direct
     the highway department of said city to notify the owner of
     property on said street, or such part thereof as may have been
     included in the petition, to have such footway paved in front of
     their respective premises, in the manner indicated in the
     petition, within sixty days after receiving said notice.
        Section 2.  Should any of the property owners refuse or
     neglect to make said pavement for sixty days after notice has
     been given, the highway department shall proceed, without delay,
     to have it made, and charge the cost thereof to the property in
     front of which it is made; and if said cost is not paid within
     sixty days after a bill for the same has been presented, a claim
     shall be filed, in the proper court, for the amount thereof,
     which claim shall be a lien against the property, and shall be
     collected in the same manner as other municipal claims are now
     by law collected.
        Section 3.  When said pavement requires repairing, and the
     owner or owners of property, in front of which the repairs are
     needed, neglect or refuse after ten days' notice to make such
     repairs, it shall be the duty of the highway department to have
     them made, without delay, and the costs thereof shall be
     collected in the same manner as the cost is ordered to be
     collected by the second section of this act.
        Section 4.  Nothing in this act shall prevent councils of the
     cities of the first class from directing the curbstones to be
     set and brick pavements laid on the footways of any of the
     streets of the cities of the first class, whenever said streets
     are opened and graded according to confirmed surveys, and the
     advance of improvements may demand the same.