11 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 129 - Streets

• Chapter Notes
• Section 12901 - Map Of Streets
  (a) General rule.--Council may authorize and approve a comprehensive map of city streets, which may be part of an official map adopted in accordance...
• Section 12902 - Laying Out Streets
  (a) General rule.--A city may lay out streets by any of the following means: (1) Identifying the street on a comprehensive map of city...
• Section 12903 - Effect Of Laying Out Street
  With regard to land not previously used by the city as a passageway for public travel, the laying out and locating of a street...
• Section 12904 - Improvements Within Laid-out Streets
  (a) General rule.--No permit shall be issued for any building within the lines of any street laid out pursuant to this chapter. (b) Damages.--No...
• Section 12915 - Power To Open And Alter Streets
  (a) General rule.--With regard to any street or any part of a street within city limits, a city may, with or without any petition...
• Section 12916 - Ordinances When No Petition Is Presented
  (a) General rule.--An ordinance shall be enacted for the opening, widening, straightening, extending or vacating of any street without petition of property owners by...
• Section 12917 - Erection Of Improvements Restricted
  (a) General rule.--Any ordinance widening or straightening any street shall fix the new line or lines. (b) Conformation to new lines.--The ordinance may require...
• Section 12918 - Petition For Opening
  (a) Presentment to council.--A petition may be presented to council for the opening, widening, straightening, altering, extending, vacating, establishing or reestablishing of the grade...
• Section 12919 - Notice Of Petition
  (a) General rule.--After a petition has been presented in accordance with section 12918 (relating to petition for opening) and council has determined the adequacy...
• Section 12922 - Assessment Of Damages And Benefits
  If necessary, in any proceedings to exercise one of the powers given in section 12915 (relating to power to open and alter streets), viewers...
• Section 12930 - Power To Grade, Pave And Macadamize
  (a) General rule.--A city may grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise improve any street, and the sidewalks of the street when included as a part...
• Section 12931 - Payment Of Cost Of Improvement
  (a) General rule.--The costs and expenses of the improvements done under section 12930 (relating to power to grade, pave and macadamize) shall be paid,...
• Section 12938 - Preparation Of Streets For Paving Or Repairing
  (a) General rule.--Council may provide, by ordinance, for the laying, renewing and repairing of all gas, water, steam or other pipes or conduits in...
• Section 12939 - Highways In Cities
  (a) Power over highways.--Powers, rights and duties given to a city over its streets shall extend to highways to the extent that the city...
• Section 12950 - Grade Crossing
  (a) Railroad crossings.--A city constructing a street across a railroad shall construct the street above or below the grade of the railroad, unless permitted...
• Section 12955 - Acquisition Of Unobstructed Views
  Any city may acquire, by purchase or by the right of eminent domain, a free and unobstructed view down and across lands located at...
• Section 12960 - Use Of Abutting Lands For Embankments, Slopes, Fills And Culverts
  (a) General rule.--In the grading of any street, a city may use so much of the lots and lands abutting on the street for...
• Section 12970 - Appropriation For Connections With Highways
  A city may, singly or jointly with other political subdivisions, appropriate money for the improvement of streets or roads beyond the limits of a...
• Section 12975 - Street Closings And Detours
  (a) General rule.--The following shall apply to the closing of a street to vehicular traffic: (1) No street shall be closed to vehicular traffic,...
• Section 12985 - Maintenance Of Streets Forming Boundaries
  (a) General rule.--A street on the boundary line between a city and another municipal corporation shall be maintained jointly by the city and the...
• Section 12986 - Streets, The Center Line Of Which Is The Boundary Between City And Another Municipal Corporation
  (a) General rule.--A city may enter into a contract with a municipal corporation to provide for the grading, curbing, draining, paving and macadamizing of...
• Section 12988 - Streets More Than Half Of Whose Width Is Within City
  (a) Authority to improve entire street.--Whenever any street, more than one-half the width of which is within the limits of the city, shall divide...
• Section 12989 - Assessment For Improvements On Property Outside Limits Where Street Entirely Within City
  Whenever any street, entirely within the limits of any city, shall divide the city from any other municipal corporation, the property on the side...

Last modified: October 8, 2016