(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 that no owner or builder shall erect any new building or rebuild or alter the front of any building already erected without making it conform to the new lines.
(c) Right of action.--A landowner's right of action shall accrue only when the city actually enters on and occupies the land within the lines or the building is located or relocated to conform to the lines.
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