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Compacts to finance operations and particular projects - 74 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1749

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     § 1749.  Compacts to finance operations and particular projects.
        (a)  General rule.--The counties and municipalities in any
     metropolitan area shall enter into a compact or compacts among
     themselves and/or with the authority to provide for meeting the
     authority's capital or operating budget by appropriations,
     annual or otherwise, of such sums and in such proportions as may
     be agreed upon in the compact to be paid by each signatory party
     thereto. The obligation incurred thereby shall be for the term
     as set forth in the compact without regard to the provisions of
     any law, ordinance or regulation to the contrary and shall
     constitute a commitment and obligation, binding and absolute, on
     the part of each signatory party to appropriate and pay over the
     necessary funds in accordance therewith. The operating budget
     shall include all sums of money necessary for the formation and
     organization of any authority and all items of operating
     expenses in connection with the authority, as well as necessary
     funds for planning and research appropriate and consistent with
     the purposes of this chapter and any compact entered into under
     this chapter.
        (b)  Financing of particular projects.--A compact may also
     provide for the financing of a particular mass transportation
     project in such manner as shall be provided for in the compact.
        (c)  Commitment of party.--Whenever a party signatory to a
     compact thereby expresses its approval of the budget for
     financing a particular project, this shall then constitute a
     commitment and obligation, binding and absolute, on the part of
     the party signatory to appropriate the necessary funds in
     accordance therewith.
        (d)  Commitment of county or municipality.--No commitment or
     obligation involving the payment of moneys to or on behalf of
     the authority shall exist in any instance on the part of any
     county or other municipality within the metropolitan area unless
     and until the commitment or obligation shall first have been
     expressly and lawfully undertaken and assumed by the county or
     other municipality.

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