Title 8, BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS

(a) Recreation board or other authority.--The authority to supervise and maintain recreation places may be vested in any existing body or board, including the council, or in a recreation board, as the council shall determine. The council of the borough may equip, operate and main…

(a) Establishment.--If the council determines that the power to equip, operate and maintain recreation places shall be exercised by a recreation board, the council may, by ordinance, establish in the borough a recreation board which shall possess those powers and duties as may be…

The members of a recreation board established under this chapter shall elect their own chair and secretary and select all other necessary officers to serve for a period of one year. The recreation board may, with the approval of council, establish employment positions and hire em…

(a) Lease.--A borough maintaining a recreation place may lease a recreation place, or a portion of a recreation place, suitable for athletic sports and athletic games to any school board or school athletic association organized by a school board and organized for the purpose of c…

(a) Council authority.--Council shall have exclusive care, custody and control of shade trees in the borough. Council may: (1) Plant, transplant, remove, maintain and protect shade trees on the streets and highways in the borough. (2) Employ and pay persons and make and enforce r…

(a) Cost and expenses.--The cost and expenses of caring for shade trees after having been planted or transplanted and the expense of publishing any notice required by this subchapter shall be paid by the borough. (b) Tax levy or appropriation.--Council may levy a general tax, not…

(a) Payment by owners.--The cost of planting, transplanting or removing any shade trees or the necessary and suitable guards, curbing or grading for their protection and of the replacing of pavement or sidewalk necessarily disturbed in the execution of the work shall be paid by t…

If council proposes to plant, transplant or remove shade trees on any street, notice of the time and place of the meeting at which the work is to be considered shall be given in one newspaper of general circulation once a week for two weeks immediately preceding the time of the m…

(a) Penalties for violation.--To the extent provided by ordinance, council may assess penalties for the violation of regulations relating to shade trees or delegate the power to assess penalties to a shade tree commission. Any penalty assessed shall be a lien upon the real estate…

(a) Establishment.--Council, by ordinance, may establish a shade tree commission and delegate to the shade tree commission the exclusive care, custody and control of shade trees and authorization to plant, transplant, remove, maintain and protect shade trees on the streets and hi…

(a) General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a shade tree commission shall be composed of three residents of the borough who shall be appointed by the council and shall serve without compensation. (b) Council option.--The council, by ordinance, may provide that a shade tre…

(a) Annual report.--A shade tree commission shall annually report in full to the council its transactions and expenses for the last fiscal year of the borough. (b) Notice.--If a shade tree commission proposes to plant, transplant or remove shade trees on any street, notice of the…

A borough may acquire by purchase, gift or lease tracts of land covered with forest or tree growth or suitable for the growth of trees and administer the tracts in accordance with the practices and principles of scientific forestry, for the benefit of the borough. The tracts may …

If the council deems it expedient to acquire land for the purposes of a municipal forest, it shall enact an ordinance setting forth the facts and conditions relating to the proposed action.

Money necessary for the purchase of the tracts shall be appropriated in the same manner as appropriations for borough purposes. Money may be provided from the current revenue or by the proceeds of a sale of general obligation bonds in accordance with existing law.

Upon the acquisition of a municipal forest or land suitable for a municipal forest, the council may promulgate regulations for the government and proper administration of the same as necessary to produce continuing borough revenue by the sale of forest products. Cross References.…

Money necessary for the administration, maintenance, protection and development of forests shall be appropriated and applied as is now done for borough purposes. The revenue and return on the revenue arising from the forests shall be paid into the borough treasury to be used for …

A municipal forest may be used by the public as general outing or recreation grounds subject to the regulations under section 2755 (relating to regulations).

(a) Requirement.--If the council deems it expedient to sell or lease a municipal forest, a part of a municipal forest or a product from a municipal forest, it shall enact an ordinance setting forth the facts and conditions relating to the proposed action. (b) Conditions.--In orde…

(a) Authority.--To comply with the practices and principles of scientific forestry, the council has the following powers: (1) To pass a resolution to prune or thin out a municipal forest or portion of a municipal forest. (2) To sell the products of the pruning or thinning out. (b…