(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 of property owners, do any of the following:
(1) Open, widen, straighten, alter, extend and improve.
(2) Establish or reestablish the grades.
(3) Keep in order and repair and in safe passable condition.
(4) Vacate and discontinue when deemed expedient for the public good.
(5) With the approval of the Department of Transportation, vacate highways laid out by the Commonwealth within the city limits which have remained unopened for 30 years.
(b) Payment.--A city may pay for any of the actions authorized in subsection (a), either in whole or in part, from the general revenues of the city.
Cross References. Section 12915 is referred to in section 12922 of this title.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Section 12901 - Map of streets
Section 12902 - Laying out streets
Section 12903 - Effect of laying out street
Section 12904 - Improvements within laid-out streets
Section 12915 - Power to open and alter streets
Section 12916 - Ordinances when no petition is presented
Section 12917 - Erection of improvements restricted
Section 12918 - Petition for opening
Section 12919 - Notice of petition
Section 12922 - Assessment of damages and benefits
Section 12930 - Power to grade, pave and macadamize
Section 12931 - Payment of cost of improvement
Section 12938 - Preparation of streets for paving or repairing
Section 12939 - Highways in cities
Section 12950 - Grade crossing
Section 12955 - Acquisition of unobstructed views
Section 12960 - Use of abutting lands for embankments, slopes, fills and culverts
Section 12970 - Appropriation for connections with highways
Section 12975 - Street closings and detours
Section 12985 - Maintenance of streets forming boundaries
Section 12988 - Streets more than half of whose width is within city