Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 11 - CITIES
Chapter 129 - Streets

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 129 was added November 24, 2015, P.L.242, No.67,...

Section 12901 - Map of streets - (a) General rule.--Council may authorize and approve a comprehensive map...

Section 12902 - Laying out streets - (a) General rule.--A city may lay out streets by any...

Section 12903 - Effect of laying out street - With regard to land not previously used by the city...

Section 12904 - Improvements within laid-out streets - (a) General rule.--No permit shall be issued for any building...

Section 12915 - Power to open and alter streets - (a) General rule.--With regard to any street or any part...

Section 12916 - Ordinances when no petition is presented - (a) General rule.--An ordinance shall be enacted for the opening,...

Section 12917 - Erection of improvements restricted - (a) General rule.--Any ordinance widening or straightening any street shall...

Section 12918 - Petition for opening - (a) Presentment to council.--A petition may be presented to council...

Section 12919 - Notice of petition - (a) General rule.--After a petition has been presented in accordance...

Section 12922 - Assessment of damages and benefits - If necessary, in any proceedings to exercise one of the...

Section 12930 - Power to grade, pave and macadamize - (a) General rule.--A city may grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise...

Section 12931 - Payment of cost of improvement - (a) General rule.--The costs and expenses of the improvements done...

Section 12938 - Preparation of streets for paving or repairing - (a) General rule.--Council may provide, by ordinance, for the laying,...

Section 12939 - Highways in cities - (a) Power over highways.--Powers, rights and duties given to a...

Section 12950 - Grade crossing - (a) Railroad crossings.--A city constructing a street across a railroad...

Section 12955 - Acquisition of unobstructed views - Any city may acquire, by purchase or by the right...

Section 12960 - Use of abutting lands for embankments, slopes, fills and culverts - (a) General rule.--In the grading of any street, a city...

Section 12970 - Appropriation for connections with highways - A city may, singly or jointly with other political subdivisions,...

Section 12975 - Street closings and detours - (a) General rule.--The following shall apply to the closing of...

Section 12985 - Maintenance of streets forming boundaries - (a) General rule.--A street on the boundary line between a...

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...

Section 12988 - Streets more than half of whose width is within city - (a) Authority to improve entire street.--Whenever any street, more than...

Section 12989 - Assessment for improvements on property outside limits where street entirely within city - Whenever any street, entirely within the limits of any city,...