Pennsylvania Act 1909-251 — SECOND CLASS CITIES, PAVING OF STREETS

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SECOND CLASS CITIES, PAVING OF STREETS
                  Act of May 6, 1909, P.L. 451, No. 251               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Regulating the paving or macadamizing of any public street,
        lane, or alley, or part thereof, and the construction of
        lateral sewers, in cities of the second class, and providing
        for ascertaining the costs and expenses thereof upon the
        property benefited or abutting thereon.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in cities of the second
     class, the costs and expenses of lateral sewers shall be
     assessed upon the lots or lands along or through which such
     lateral sewers run, according to the valuation of such lots or
     lands aforesaid, or in proportion to benefits upon lots or lands
     benefited, or by an equal assessment by the foot front upon the
     lands along or through which such sewers run, as council may
     determine.
        Section 2.  Every city of the second class, in its corporate
     capacity, is authorized to cause to be paved or macadamized any
     public street, lane, or alley, or part thereof, which is now or
     may hereafter be laid out and opened in any of said cities, and
     have the same set with curb-stones; and to provide for the
     payment of the costs and expenses thereof, in whole or in part,
     by the city, or by the owners of real estate bounding and
     abutting thereon; which costs and expenses upon the abutting
     real estate shall be assessed according to the foot front rule,
     or according to benefits, as council shall by ordinance
     determine.
        Section 3.  All municipal claims which may hereafter be
     lawfully imposed or assessed upon any property, in accordance
     with the foregoing sections, shall be proceeded upon in the
     method prescribed, for the filing and enforcing payment of such
     claims, by the act of June four, Anno Domini one thousand nine
     hundred and one.