Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS
Chapter 27 - Recreation Places, Shade Trees and Forests

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 27 was added April 18, 2014, P.L.432, No.37,...

Section 2700 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this chapter...

Section 2701 - General powers - (a) General rule.--A borough may provide, improve, maintain and regulate...

Section 2702 - Power to acquire - (a) Authority.--A borough may enter upon, appropriate and acquire by...

Section 2703 - Appropriation of private property - The appropriation of private property for the purpose of making,...

Section 2708 - Recreation board or other authority - (a) Recreation board or other authority.--The authority to supervise and...

Section 2709 - Establishment of recreation board - (a) Establishment.--If the council determines that the power to equip,...

Section 2710 - Organization of board and employees - The members of a recreation board established under this chapter...

Section 2713 - Lease for school athletics - (a) Lease.--A borough maintaining a recreation place may lease a...

Section 2720 - Care, custody and control - (a) Council authority.--Council shall have exclusive care, custody and control...

Section 2720.1 - Maintenance by borough and tax levy - (a) Cost and expenses.--The cost and expenses of caring for...

Section 2720.2 - Payment by owners and assessments - (a) Payment by owners.--The cost of planting, transplanting or removing...

Section 2720.3 - Notice of work - If council proposes to plant, transplant or remove shade trees...

Section 2720.4 - Penalties - (a) Penalties for violation.--To the extent provided by ordinance, council...

Section 2721 - Shade tree commission - (a) Establishment.--Council, by ordinance, may establish a shade tree commission...

Section 2722 - Composition of commission - (a) General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a shade tree...

Section 2724.1 - Duties of commission - (a) Annual report.--A shade tree commission shall annually report in...

Section 2751 - Acquisition of land for forest purposes - A borough may acquire by purchase, gift or lease tracts...

Section 2753 - Ordinance of acquisition - If the council deems it expedient to acquire land for...

Section 2754 - Appropriations - Money necessary for the purchase of the tracts shall be...

Section 2755 - Regulations - Upon the acquisition of a municipal forest or land suitable...

Section 2756 - Appropriations and revenue - Money necessary for the administration, maintenance, protection and development of...

Section 2757 - Use of forests - A municipal forest may be used by the public as...

Section 2758 - Ordinance of sale - (a) Requirement.--If the council deems it expedient to sell or...

Section 2759 - Pruning and thinning - (a) Authority.--To comply with the practices and principles of scientific...