Section 3. City of Philadelphia; regulation of projections over sidewalks, streets, etc.; penalties
It shall and may be lawful for the select and common councils of the City of Philadelphia, from time to time, by ordinance, to make and establish such and so many rules and regulations as to them may seem expedient, for the better regulation of porches, porticoes, benches, doorsteps, railings, bulk or jut windows, areas, cellar-doors and cellar windows, signs, sign-posts, boards, poles and frames, awnings, awning-posts, or other device or thing projecting over, under, into or otherwise occupying the sidewalks or other portion of any of the streets, lanes and alleys; and in relation to boxes, bales, barrels, hogsheads, crates or other articles or merchandise, lumber, coal, wood, ashes, building materials, or any other article or thing whatsoever placed in or upon any of the said footways, sidewalks or other portion of the said streets or alleys, and for the better protection and regulation of markets, market-stands and market-houses, and at the expense of the owner or owners of the property adjoining, to regulate, grade, pave and repave, curb and recurb, the said footways or sidewalks, and the said ordinances, rules and regulations to execute, under the direction or superintendence of such person or persons as they may authorize or appoint, and the same to enforce by suitable penalties, which penalties and expenses of paving and repaving, curbing and recurbing, as aforesaid, shall be recoverable before any alderman of said city, or before any court having jurisdiction, in the same manner that debts of like amount are by law recoverable. 1838, April 16, P.L. 626, Sec. 3.
Compiler's Note: Section 302(d) of Act 177 of 1988 provided
that section 3 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
with 15 Pa.C.S. § 1511 (relating to additional powers of
certain public utility corporations).