Title 16, COUNTIES

If the county commissioners provide a bridge or viaduct under this chapter, the county commissioners shall prepare plans and surveys showing the location of the proposed structure, the structures approaches and the property or rights of property affected by the structure, togethe…

If a proposed bridge crosses a navigable stream or other public water or the property or right-of-way of any railroad or other public utility requiring the approval of any Federal or State officer, board or body as to the location and construction of the bridge or its approaches,…

If a bridge is proposed to be located in a municipality, the county may enter into an agreement with the municipality if the municipality bears a portion of the cost of the location, laying out, opening, construction and maintenance of the bridge or that the municipality provides…

(a) Boundary line bridge.--If a bridge under this chapter is on the boundary line between two counties or within one-fourth of a mile from a boundary line and necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants of both counties, the county commissioners of the counties shall act j…

If, in accordance with this chapter, a county is authorized to erect a bridge, the county commissioners may purchase a bridge already erected at a reasonable cost instead of building a new bridge.

The county commissioners may take charge of or rebuild a bridge suitable for public traffic within the county that was abandoned by the owners.

(a) County acceptance of bridge as donation.--The county commissioners may accept, take charge of and enter into county records as a county bridge any bridge within the county which has: (1) been built at the expense of a private person or by a public subscription; (2) been opene…

If, in the construction, repair or maintenance of a county bridge or highway, it becomes necessary for the safety of the bridge or highway or economically advisable to widen, straighten, alter, protect or change the course of an unnavigable stream, it shall be lawful for the coun…

(a) Authority.--A county, for the purpose of protecting a county bridge or the abutments and approaches of a county bridge and any public highway adjacent to the county bridge from the incursions of the tide floods or waters of any stream, and to prolong the life of any structure…

If considered necessary for the safety and convenience of the traveling public, the county commissioners may provide a county bridge with lights of any kind and character that the county commissioners shall deem suitable and may contract with any individual or with any municipal …

If a county bridge is destroyed or rendered impassable, the county commissioners may provide, at the expense of the county, ferries or other temporary ways as a substitute for the destroyed or impassable bridge, until the bridge has been rebuilt or rendered fit for public travel.…

If it appears to the county commissioners that any county bridge, including any destroyed or partially destroyed bridge, has become burdensome and is no longer necessary for the accommodation of public travel, the county commissioners may close, vacate, abandon and remove the bri…

The county commissioners may enter into a contract or lease with a street railway, telegraph or telephone company or other public utility, or the successors or assigns of a street railway, telegraph or telephone company or other public utility, desiring to use a county bridge and…

(a) Contract with railroad.--A railroad company whose tracks or other facilities are located upon a county bridge may contract and agree with the county commissioners for the use, purchase, removal, replacing or exchange of the bridge, or for the compensation to be paid to the co…

(a) Commissioner discretionary acceptance of costs.--If the construction of a new bridge, or of a bridge to replace any existing bridge, over a stream or over or under a railroad, and forming part of any road in any city, borough, town or township, or between any two or more muni…

In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, if a bridge is to take the place of an existing bridge, the viewers may change the location of the bridge so that it may be located and built in the most suitable place, or at the least expense, or in the b…

In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, in which a stream over which it may be necessary to build a bridge crosses a public road, and the building of the bridge requires the construction of an embankment or causeway leading to either end of such …

(a) Contract with municipal corporation.--If a municipal corporation may construct a bridge or viaduct over a stream or other place over which the county may build bridges and the municipal corporation may contract with the county and with railroads, street railways and other com…

If a bridge or viaduct is built by a municipality and does not cross any place over which the county may construct a bridge but crosses merely railroad or railroads and private property, the county commissioners of counties of the second class A may contract to pay an amount of m…

If a bridge or proposed bridge is on the dividing line between two counties which is also the dividing line between one county and a municipality in the other county and the municipality has authority to build or rebuild the bridge or to join with any county therein, the county m…

If different parts of any municipality or any two municipalities are separated by an intervening valley or ravine, and the county commissioners in which the municipality or municipalities are located decide it is necessary that a public bridge be constructed, the county may contr…

If a public bridge has been built or maintained by one or more municipal corporations and it appears to the county commissioners that the care, maintenance and responsibility of the bridge is greater than it is reasonable that the municipal corporations should be responsible for,…

In the exercise of the powers, authorities and duties provided in this chapter, a county may appropriate and pay out of the county general fund all money necessary for the purposes enumerated in this chapter, and may levy, assess and collect taxes on all real and personal propert…

A county constructing a bridge or making any other capital improvement or major repairs under this chapter may, under a resolution adopted by the county commissioners, incur indebtedness and borrow money under this section. A county may levy and collect on all taxable property in…