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Extra - Chapter Notes - Prior Provisions. Former Chapter 15, which related to metropolitan transportation...
Section 1701 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this chapter...
Section 1711 - Creation of metropolitan transportation authorities - (a) Creation and purpose.--There is hereby authorized the creation of...
Section 1712 - Governing and policymaking body - (a) Transportation board.--The governing and policymaking body of an authority...
Section 1713 - Appointment of board members - (a) Appointment.--Except as provided in subsection (d) with respect to...
Section 1714 - Resignation and vacancies - (a) Removal and vacancy.--Members of the board shall hold office...
Section 1715 - Meetings, quorum, officers and records - (a) Meetings.--Regular meetings of the board shall be held in...
Section 1716 - Secretary, oath, bond - The board shall appoint a secretary who shall not be...
Section 1717 - Controller - The board shall appoint a controller who shall not be...
Section 1718 - Signatures - (a) Facsimile signatures.--Whenever the business of the authority requires the...
Section 1719 - General manager - The board shall appoint a general manager, who shall be...
Section 1720 - Treasurer - The general manager shall appoint a treasurer to hold office...
Section 1721 - Counsel to the board - The board shall appoint a counsel to the board, who...
Section 1722 - Legal division and general counsel - (a) Legal division.--The general manager shall establish a legal division...
Section 1723 - Other employees - (a) Collective bargaining.--The board acting through the general manager shall...
Section 1724 - Personnel matters - (a) Classification of position.-- (1) The general manager shall classify...
Section 1725 - Public hearings - (a) Conduct.--All public hearings required by this chapter shall be...
Section 1726 - Citizen advisory committee - (a) Establishment and composition.--There is hereby established a citizen advisory...
Section 1727 - Investigations and subpoenas - (a) Procedure.--The board may investigate all means of transportation and...
Section 1728 - Conflicts of interest - Every member of the board and every employee of the...
Section 1741 - General powers - (a) Powers enumerated.--An authority shall have and may exercise all...
Section 1742 - Power to acquire property - (a) General rule.-- (1) The authority shall have power to...
Section 1743 - Power to contract with public utilities - The authority shall have power to enter into agreements with...
Section 1744 - Power of eminent domain - (a) Utility structures.-- (1) The authority shall have power, subject...
Section 1745 - Use of ways occupied by passenger utilities - The authority shall not have the right to use any...
Section 1746 - Transfer of records by Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission - In case the authority acquires the plant, equipment, property and...
Section 1747 - Acquisition of equipment - (a) General rule.--The authority shall have power to purchase or...
Section 1748 - Transfers of facilities or things of value to any authority - Any person may and is hereby authorized to sell, lease,...
Section 1749 - Compacts to finance operations and particular projects - (a) General rule.--The counties and municipalities in any metropolitan area...
Section 1750 - Contracts, procurement and sale of property - (a) Competitive bids.--Except in the purchase of unique articles or...
Section 1751 - Fiscal provisions - (a) Fiscal year and budget.--The board shall establish a fiscal...
Section 1752 - Financial statements and audit - (a) Statement.--As soon after the end of each fiscal year...
Section 1753 - Aid from Federal Government - In addition to the powers conferred upon any authority by...
Section 1761 - Management of funds - (a) General rule.--All funds of an authority received from any...
Section 1762 - Special funds - An authority, under resolutions adopted from time to time by...
Section 1763 - Bonds - (a) General rule.-- (1) The bonds of the authority shall...
Section 1764 - Contracts with obligees of an authority - Except as otherwise provided in any resolution of an authority...
Section 1765 - Commonwealth pledges - (a) Limitation of powers.-- (1) The Commonwealth does hereby pledge...
Section 1766 - Provisions of bonds and trust indentures - In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring...
Section 1767 - Bonds to be legal investments - Bonds issued under this chapter are hereby made securities in...
Section 1768 - Rights and remedies - (a) Additional rights.--An obligee of an authority shall have the...
Section 1769 - Additional remedies conferrable by an authority - An authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture...
Section 1770 - Validity of pledge - Any pledge of or grant of a lien on or...
Section 1771 - Security interest in funds and accounts - Any moneys deposited in any fund created by the authority...
Section 1772 - Payment of proceeds of tax levied for authority purposes - The proceeds of any tax levied for authority purposes or...
Section 1773 - Limitation on authority under Federal bankruptcy code - So long as an authority shall have outstanding any bonds...
Section 1781 - Exemption from taxation - The effectuation of the authorized purposes of an authority created...
Section 1782 - Rights and remedies preserved - The provisions of this chapter shall not in any way...
Section 1783 - Officers and employees continued - With respect to the officers and employees of any authority...
Section 1784 - Continuance of bonds - Bonds, contracts and obligations of an authority continued under this...
Section 1785 - Repeal - All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as...