8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 27 - Recreation Places, Shade Trees And Forests
Subchapter A. Parks and Playgrounds
- Section 2700 - Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
- Section 2701 - General Powers
(a) General rule.--A borough may provide, improve, maintain and regulate recreation places within the borough limits or in any adjacent municipal corporation if the...
- Section 2702 - Power To Acquire
(a) Authority.--A borough may enter upon, appropriate and acquire by gift, devise, purchase, lease or otherwise private property within the limits of the borough...
- Section 2703 - Appropriation Of Private Property
The appropriation of private property for the purpose of making, enlarging and maintaining recreation places is declared to be the taking of private property...
- Section 2704 - (Reserved)
- Section 2705 - (Reserved)
- Section 2706 - (Reserved)
- Section 2707 - (Reserved)
- Section 2708 - Recreation Board Or Other Authority
(a) Recreation board or other authority.--The authority to supervise and maintain recreation places may be vested in any existing body or board, including the...
- Section 2709 - Establishment Of Recreation Board
(a) Establishment.--If the council determines that the power to equip, operate and maintain recreation places shall be exercised by a recreation board, the council...
- Section 2710 - Organization Of Board And Employees
The members of a recreation board established under this chapter shall elect their own chair and secretary and select all other necessary officers to...
- Section 2711 - (Reserved)
- Section 2712 - (Reserved)
- Section 2713 - Lease For School Athletics
(a) Lease.--A borough maintaining a recreation place may lease a recreation place, or a portion of a recreation place, suitable for athletic sports and...
Subchapter B. Shade Trees
- Section 2720 - Care, Custody And Control
(a) Council authority.--Council shall have exclusive care, custody and control of shade trees in the borough. Council may: (1) Plant, transplant, remove, maintain and...
- Section 2720.1 - Maintenance By Borough And Tax Levy
(a) Cost and expenses.--The cost and expenses of caring for shade trees after having been planted or transplanted and the expense of publishing any...
- Section 2720.2 - Payment By Owners And Assessments
(a) Payment by owners.--The cost of planting, transplanting or removing any shade trees or the necessary and suitable guards, curbing or grading for their...
- Section 2720.3 - Notice Of Work
If council proposes to plant, transplant or remove shade trees on any street, notice of the time and place of the meeting at which...
- Section 2720.4 - Penalties
(a) Penalties for violation.--To the extent provided by ordinance, council may assess penalties for the violation of regulations relating to shade trees or delegate...
- Section 2721 - Shade Tree Commission
(a) Establishment.--Council, by ordinance, may establish a shade tree commission and delegate to the shade tree commission the exclusive care, custody and control of...
- Section 2722 - Composition Of Commission
(a) General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a shade tree commission shall be composed of three residents of the borough who shall be appointed...
- Section 2723 - (Reserved)
- Section 2724 - (Reserved)
- Section 2724.1 - Duties Of Commission
(a) Annual report.--A shade tree commission shall annually report in full to the council its transactions and expenses for the last fiscal year of...
- Section 2725 - (Reserved)
- Section 2726 - (Reserved)
- Section 2727 - (Reserved)
- Section 2728 - (Reserved)
- Section 2729 - (Reserved)
- Section 2730 - (Reserved)
Subchapter C. Forests
Last modified: October 8, 2016