Section 2546. Ornamental Illumination.--(a) Whenever the courthouse, jail, workhouse or other public building of the county abuts upon the street of a city or borough which is the county seat and which shall provide for the ornamental illumination of that section of the street whereon the county building abuts, the county commissioners of the county may appropriate moneys from the county funds towards the installation of such ornamental illumination.
(b) The appropriation by the county commissioners of the county for such purpose shall not exceed the amount that shall be assessed for such ornamental illumination upon owners of an equivalent frontage of property abutting upon said street, measured by the foot front rule.