Title 8, BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS

(a) Collectors.--Collectors shall be appointed by the commissioners, in accordance with section 2454 (relating to powers of commission), who shall collect all money for water rents. (b) Deposits.--The money collected shall be deposited weekly with the borough treasurer who shall …

(a) General rule.--Council may, by ordinance, require any owner of property to connect with and use a water system of the borough or municipal authority or a joint water board in either of the following cases: (1) Except as provided in subsection (b), if the property owner's prin…

An owner shall be given at least 45 days' notice of any ordinance requiring a water connection, and, upon failure of the owner to make the required connection, the borough may make the connection and collect the cost from the owner by a municipal claim or in an action of assumpsi…

(a) General rule.--A borough may, by ordinance, provide for charging a tapping fee calculated in accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. § 5607 (relating to purposes and powers) if the owner of any property connects the property with a water main constructed or acquired by the borough. The ta…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Municipal power agency." A separate body politic and corporate under the laws of this Commonwealth created by agreement…

(a) Electric plants and projects.--A borough may, either singly or jointly, manufacture or purchase electricity for the use of its inhabitants and own, construct, acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise gain an interest in, operate and manage or cause to be operated and managed a…

(a) Specific powers enumerated.--In addition to exercising its general powers under section 24A02 (relating to general powers), a borough, through its governing body, shall have the following powers: (1) To contract for the purchase, sale, exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling…

(a) General rule.--Two or more boroughs may form a municipal power agency by the execution of an agency agreement authorized by an ordinance of the governing bodies of each borough. The agency agreement shall state: (1) The name of the agency, which shall include the words "munic…

(a) Additional contracting authority.--In addition to the authority provided under section 24A02 (relating to general powers), a borough that, on October 27, 2010, owned or operated electric generation or distribution facilities and a borough that is a member of a nonprofit membe…

A borough is authorized and empowered to acquire by lease, purchase or condemnation any land lying either within or without the limits of the borough which, in the judgment of the council, may be necessary and desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining municipal ai…

A borough acquiring land under the provisions of this chapter is authorized and empowered to establish, equip, condition, operate and maintain the land as a municipal airport and may lease the land, or any part, to any individual or corporation desiring to use the same for aviati…

In accordance with the powers in this chapter, a borough may, jointly with another municipality, acquire land for aviation purposes and may jointly operate and maintain the airport on the terms and conditions as agreed upon by the governing bodies of the borough and other municip…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Municipal authority." A body politic and corporate created under 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 56 (relating to municipal authorities).…

Council, in the manner authorized by the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, and the act of July 28, 1988 (P.L.556, No.101), known as the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, may prohibit accumulations of municipa…

(a) General rule.--Council may collect and remove, by contract or otherwise, municipal waste and recyclables and prescribe penalties for the enforcement of the collection and removal. (b) Contract length.--A contract with refuse haulers may be made for an initial period not to ex…

(a) General rule.--Council may dispose of, by contract or otherwise, municipal waste. (b) Contract length.--A contract with the owner of a private facility for the disposal or incineration of municipal waste may be made for a period not to exceed 20 years. (c) Exemption.--The lim…

The following shall apply: (1) Council may acquire real property and erect, maintain, improve, operate and lease, either as lessor or lessee, facilities for incineration, landfill or other methods of disposal, either inside or outside the limits of the borough, including equipmen…

(a) Council authorization.--Council may establish, alter, charge and collect rates and other charges for the: (1) collection, removal and disposal of municipal waste and recyclable materials; (2) cost of including the payment of any indebtedness incurred for the construction, pur…

Council may make appropriations to a political subdivision or municipal authority for the construction, purchase, improvement, repair, maintenance and operation of a facility for the collection, removal, disposal or marketing of municipal waste, recyclable materials or composted …

A borough may not be subject to requirements otherwise imposed by law for the sale of personal property owned by the borough when selling recyclable materials or materials separated, collected, recovered or created by recycling, as provided in the act of April 9, 1992 (P.L.70, No…

(a) Construction and repair.--Boroughs shall have the power to construct and repair wharves and docks and may acquire, by purchase or condemnation, real estate along navigable waters and within the borough limits as needed for the construction. Prior to any condemnation, a boroug…

The proceedings before the viewers for the assessment of damages for property taken, injured or destroyed under this chapter and the proceedings on their report shall be as provided in 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain). The costs of all proceedings, including the compensati…

(a) General rule.--The damages for the taking or injury of any property for use as a wharf, pier or bulkhead shall include full compensation for the value of the property taken or injured. (b) Partial taking.--If the property taken or injured shall constitute a part of a plant us…

Any borough may lease any wharf or part and collect rent by distress or otherwise. No one term of a lease shall be for a period longer than three years.

(a) Market houses and terminal sheds.--Boroughs may erect and maintain market houses and terminal sheds on wharves for the receipt and distribution of freight and express. (b) Tracks and facilities.--Boroughs may construct railroad and street railway tracks or other facilities on…

No structure erected and no right granted under the powers conferred under this chapter shall interfere with the public use of wharves for waterborne commerce.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as conferring upon boroughs any power conferred by existing law on the Navigation Commission for the Delaware River and its Navigable Tributaries or to permit boroughs to do any act or to enact any ordinance inconsistent with t…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Recreation places." Public parks, parkways and playgrounds, playfields, swimming pools, public baths, bathing places, i…

(a) General rule.--A borough may provide, improve, maintain and regulate recreation places within the borough limits or in any adjacent municipal corporation if the other municipal corporation shall, by ordinance, signify its consent to the provision, improvement, maintenance or …

(a) Authority.--A borough may enter upon, appropriate and acquire by gift, devise, purchase, lease or otherwise private property within the limits of the borough or in any adjacent township. A borough may designate and set apart any lands or buildings owned by the borough and not…

The appropriation of private property for the purpose of making, enlarging and maintaining recreation places is declared to be the taking of private property for public use, and, for all damage suffered by the owners of any property taken in that manner, the funds of the borough …

(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.