Pennsylvania Act 1917-153 — SUPPLEMENTING ACT, COUNTY ROADS AND HIGHWAYS

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SUPPLEMENTING ACT, COUNTY ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
                  Act of May 24, 1917, P.L. 291, No. 153              Cl. 53
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine
        hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws, two hundred forty-four),
        entitled "An act providing for the original location, laying
        out, and construction of public roads or highways in the
        several counties of Commonwealth, and for the permanent
        improvement of certain public roads or highways therein;
        making such originally constructed or improved roads and
        highways county roads; authorizing the relocation, opening,
        straightening, widening, extension, and alteration of the
        same, and the vacation of so much of any road as may thereby
        become unnecessary; providing that the county commissioners
        of any county may prescribe rules regulating the use of roads
        constructed or maintained by the various counties, and
        prescribing penalties for the violation thereof; providing
        for the taking of property for such improvement, the
        compensation to be paid therefor, and the payment of damages
        resulting from such taking, and the manner in which such
        damages may be determined; providing for the payment of the
        costs and expenses of such construction or improvement, and
        in thereafter repairing and maintaining said roads;
        authorizing the levy of a tax or the issuing of bonds to
        provide a fund for the expense thereof; prescribing a method
        for improving a county road lying within or traversing a
        borough, and apportioning the cost of such improvement; and
        authorizing the vacation of any county road," authorizing
        boroughs, towns, and townships to enter into contracts to aid
        in the construction and maintenance of such roads or
        highways.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the proper authorities
     of any borough or township or any incorporated town of this
     Commonwealth, be, and are hereby, authorized to enter into a
     contract or contracts with the commissioners of any county in
     this Commonwealth, providing that the said county commissioners
     shall construct an improved highway or highways under the
     provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the
     expense or cost of said construction shall be borne jointly by
     the said borough, township, or incorporated town and the said
     county, in such ratio or proportions as may be agreed on in said
     contract or contracts, irrespective of whether the municipality
     intervenes between two ends of the county highway or not, or
     whether or not the municipality is the terminus of a county
     highway, State highway, or township road.
        (1 amended May 6, 1927, P.L.831, No.419)
        Compiler's Note:  Section 1501 of Act 447 of 1929 provided
            that section 1 is repealed insofar as it confers powers
            or imposes any duties on counties other than counties of
            the first class.
        Section 2.  Payment for the construction of said highway or
     highways, as provided for in section one of this supplement,
     shall be made by the county, which shall be reimbursed by the
     said borough, township, or incorporated towns, in such sums as
     agreed upon in said contract or contracts, upon presentation to
     them, from time to time, of estimates and bills for work already
     performed and paid for under the provisions of the act to which
     this is a supplement.
        Compiler's Note:  Section 1501 of Act 447 of 1929 provided
            that section 2 is repealed insofar as it confers powers
            or imposes any duties on counties other than counties of
            the first class.
        Section 3.  The several boroughs, townships, or incorporated
     towns, in this Commonwealth, who shall enter into a contract or
     contracts with the county commissioners of their respective
     counties for the joint construction of improved highways under
     the provisions of this supplement, are hereby authorized to
     incur such indebtedness, and issue interest bearing bonds
     therefor, as may be necessary to pay their proper share of said
     cost of construction as agreed in said contract or contracts;
     subject, however, to the constitutional limitations of such
     indebtedness.
        Section 4.  Any highway constructed jointly, under the
     provisions of this supplement, shall be repaired and maintained
     at the expense of the proper county; but nothing shall prevent
     the proper authorities of a borough, township, or incorporated
     town from entering into a contract or contracts with the county
     commissioners of the proper county for the maintenance of said
     improved highway, under such terms and conditions as may be
     mutually satisfactory.
        Compiler's Note:  Section 1501 of Act 447 of 1929 provided
            that section 4 is repealed insofar as it confers powers
            or imposes any duties on counties other than counties of
            the first class.