Pennsylvania Act 1925-315 — PRIVATE ROADS, RELATING TO

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PRIVATE ROADS, RELATING TO
                  Act of May 12, 1925, P.L. 586, No. 315              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to private roads; prescribing the time within which
        approved private roads must be physically opened;
        invalidating proceedings for opening of such roads unopened
        within the prescribed time; and providing for the reversion
        of any land proposed to be taken therefor.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever proceedings
     have been heretofore or may hereafter be begun in any court of
     quarter sessions of this Commonwealth for the opening and laying
     out of any private road in any township in this Commonwealth,
     such private road shall be physically opened upon the ground for
     use by the parties petitioning for the laying out of such road
     within the period of five years next after the entry of the
     final decree confirming said road and not thereafter.
        Section 2.  In the event that the proceeding for the opening
     and laying out of a private road referred to in the preceding
     section shall have been completed, and a final decree confirming
     said road shall have been made, and such proposed road shall not
     have been physically opened upon the ground, and shall have
     remained or shall remain unopened to use for a continuous period
     of five years next after the entry of the final decree
     confirming said road, then such proceedings shall be deemed to
     be void and of no effect, and the land proposed to be taken
     shall revert to the owners of the land, as in the case of the
     vacation of a public road, free of any easement or right of the
     petitioner or petitioners for such road to use the same:
     Provided, That in all proceedings heretofore had and in which
     the final decree shall have been made for a period of four years
     and upwards prior to the passage of this act, then in that case
     the proceedings shall not be deemed void for a period of one
     year from the approval hereof.