Section 7

Section 7. Whenever the councils of any city of the second or third class shall have, in any ordinance granting rights of way to any street passenger railway company, reserved the right to grant to any other passenger railway company the privilege of using any portion of the tracks laid over the right of way so granted, upon payment of a proportionate share of the cost and maintenance of such tracks, and the councils have granted to one or more companies, under such reservation, the right to use the tracks so laid, and the companies interested cannot agree upon the sum to be paid for such use, either company may file its petition in the court of common pleas of the proper county for the appointment of viewers to ascertain the sum so to be paid, and the same be proceeded with to final judgment and execution in the manner provided for in the preceding section.