(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 of any street.
(b) Majority of property owners required.--A petition made pursuant to this section shall be:
(1) Signed by a majority, in number and interest, of the owners of property abutting on the line of the proposed improvement or vacation as fixed at the time of presentation of the petition.
(2) Verified by affidavit of one or more of the petitioners.
(c) Majority in interest.--The majority in interest of owners of undivided interests in any piece of property shall be deemed as one person for the purposes of the petition.
Cross References. Section 12918 is referred to in section 12919 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