Title 11, CITIES

(a) General rule.--With regard to any street or any part of a street within city limits, a city may, with or without any petition of property owners, do any of the following: (1) Open, widen, straighten, alter, extend and improve. (2) Establish or reestablish the grades. (3) Keep…

(a) General rule.--An ordinance shall be enacted for the opening, widening, straightening, extending or vacating of any street without petition of property owners by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of members of council, plus one. (b) Enactment of ordinance…

(a) General rule.--Any ordinance widening or straightening any street shall fix the new line or lines. (b) Conformation to new lines.--The ordinance may require that no owner or builder shall erect any new building or rebuild or alter the front of any building already erected wit…

(a) Presentment to council.--A petition may be presented to council for the opening, widening, straightening, altering, extending, vacating, establishing or reestablishing of the grade of any street. (b) Majority of property owners required.--A petition made pursuant to this sect…

(a) General rule.--After a petition has been presented in accordance with section 12918 (relating to petition for opening) and council has determined the adequacy of the petition, but before final enactment of any ordinance enacted pursuant to the petition, notice shall be publis…

If necessary, in any proceedings to exercise one of the powers given in section 12915 (relating to power to open and alter streets), viewers shall be appointed, damages awarded and benefits assessed as provided in 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain) or as provided in this cha…

(a) General rule.--A city may grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise improve any street, and the sidewalks of the street when included as a part of the improvement, have them set with curbs and provide for drainage. (b) Improvement.--A city may provide for the following improvement…

(a) General rule.--The costs and expenses of the improvements done under section 12930 (relating to power to grade, pave and macadamize) shall be paid, in whole or in part, by the city or by the owners of real estate bounding and abutting the improvement. (b) Assessment.--Cost an…

(a) General rule.--Council may provide, by ordinance, for the laying, renewing and repairing of all gas, water, steam or other pipes or conduits in any street before the paving, repaving or repairing of the street and for making the necessary connections with the pipes. (b) Sewer…

(a) Power over highways.--Powers, rights and duties given to a city over its streets shall extend to highways to the extent that the city is legally responsible for them, pursuant to agreement or otherwise. (b) Damages.--A city shall not be responsible for damages to property own…

(a) Railroad crossings.--A city constructing a street across a railroad shall construct the street above or below the grade of the railroad, unless permitted by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to construct the street at grade. (b) New construction.--Any new constructio…

Any city may acquire, by purchase or by the right of eminent domain, a free and unobstructed view down and across lands located at or near intersections or curves of streets, railroads or railways to assure a free and unobstructed view in all directions at the intersections or cu…

(a) General rule.--In the grading of any street, a city may use so much of the lots and lands abutting on the street for the construction of embankments, slopes, fills and culverts as may be necessary for the completion of the improvement. (b) Compensation.--Compensation for dama…

A city may, singly or jointly with other political subdivisions, appropriate money for the improvement of streets or roads beyond the limits of a city for the purpose of connecting improved streets in a city with a highway.

(a) General rule.--The following shall apply to the closing of a street to vehicular traffic: (1) No street shall be closed to vehicular traffic, except upon order of the department of streets and public improvements or other department of the city having jurisdiction over public…

(a) General rule.--A street on the boundary line between a city and another municipal corporation shall be maintained jointly by the city and the other municipal corporation. (b) Maintenance agreement.--The officers of the city and the municipal corporation maintaining a street u…

(a) General rule.--A city may enter into a contract with a municipal corporation to provide for the grading, curbing, draining, paving and macadamizing of any street that constitutes the dividing line between the city and the municipal corporation. (b) Supervision.--The alteratio…

(a) Authority to improve entire street.--Whenever any street, more than one-half the width of which is within the limits of the city, shall divide the city from any other municipal corporation, the street may be improved by the city in the same manner as if the street were entire…

Whenever any street, entirely within the limits of any city, shall divide the city from any other municipal corporation, the property on the side of the street, within or outside the city, that abuts the street and benefits from the improvement may, for a depth of 150 feet from i…