Title 11, CITIES

(a) Standard.--All appointments made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be for and during good behavior, and no employee hired pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be removed or transferred for any political reasons. (b) Temporary appointments.--In case …

(a) Provisions.-- (1) All employees subject to civil service shall be subject to suspension, discharge and discipline by the director of the department in which the employee works for misconduct or violation of any law of this Commonwealth, ordinance of the city or regulation of …

The civil service board shall appoint a secretary and prescribe the secretary's duties and shall have the power to change these duties. The secretary shall be subject to removal, at any time, by the board. Council shall establish the compensation to be paid to the secretary and a…

The lists of eligible names kept by the civil service board shall be annually examined by the board for the purpose of deleting individuals from the list who are permanently unavailable for or disqualified for the position or positions involved, either by death, permanent removal…

The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Veterans' organization." An incorporated organization of veterans of the armed forces of the United States or an org…

(a) Annual appropriation.--Council may make annual appropriations to veterans' organizations to aid in defraying the following expenses: (1) Expenses relating to Memorial Day and Veterans Day. (2) Other expenses, such as payment of rent of any building or rooms where the organiza…

Council may provide to a veterans' organization, upon application of the organization, a facility in any public building of the city that is sufficient for periodic meetings of the organization.

(a) Annual appropriation.--Council may appropriate annually a sum for the support, maintenance, discipline and training of any troop, company or similar unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard. If the units are organized as a battalion, regiment or similar organization, the total…

(a) Assistance.--Council may appropriate money or convey land, either independently or in conjunction with any other political subdivision, to the Commonwealth for the following purposes: (1) To assist the State Armory Board in the erection of armories for the use of the Pennsylv…

Council may take, by right of eminent domain for the purpose of appropriating to itself for the use of the Pennsylvania National Guard, public lands, easements and public property in its possession or control and used or held by it for any other purpose. However, the right of emi…

(a) General rule.--Council may acquire, by purchase, gift or the right of eminent domain, any land for the use of the Pennsylvania National Guard and may convey lands so acquired to the Commonwealth in order to assist the State Armory Board in the erection of armories. (b) Limita…

Council may appropriate money for and purchase plots of ground in any cemetery or burial ground within its respective city limits for the interment of deceased servicepersons: (1) who: (i) die within the city; or (ii) die beyond the city limits but had a legal residence within th…

(a) Council authority.--Council may take charge of, care for, maintain and keep in good order and repair, at the expense of the city, any soldier's monument, gun or carriage or similar memorial, if the memorial: (1) Is situate in the city. (2) Is not in the charge or care of any …

Council may provide for or authorize provision for memorial trees for residents of the city who died while in the military service of the United States or in consequence of that service. Council may make appropriations or accept contributions for this purpose. Trees shall bear so…

Any individual who willfully, maliciously or negligently destroys or injures any tree planted pursuant to section 144A23 (relating to memorial trees) commits a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500, or to impr…

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: "Public improvement." The term includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1) The building, paving, grading, rebuil…

(a) Authority.--Unless otherwise provided for in this part, a city is authorized to assess all or any portion of the costs of a public improvement, including any related administrative fees, against any properties that are benefited by the public improvement. (b) Payment of costs…

(a) Ordinance.--In any case in which council elects to exercise the power to make assessments for a given public improvement as authorized in section 145A01 (relating to authority to assess), council shall, by ordinance and in conformity with this chapter, establish the method an…

(a) Personal notice.--After the amounts to be assessed against the properties to be benefited by the public improvement have been calculated pursuant to the method and procedures as prescribed by ordinance, the city shall give personal notice of the assessment to the owner of eac…

Within 30 days after receipt of the notice of assessment, an owner of property shall have the right to appeal the assessment to the court of common pleas in the county in which the assessed property is located. On appeal, unless the court finds fraud, mistake or illegality, the c…

In any proceeding in which damages to property are being sought as a result of a public improvement for which an assessment of benefits has been made, the excess of damages over benefits, or the excess of benefits over damages, or nothing in case the benefits and damages are equa…

The following shall apply with regard to the return of payments made on an unlawful assessment: (1) If, after a timely appeal, a court makes a final determination that a property was unlawfully assessed or that the amount assessed exceeded, to a substantial amount, the benefits r…

(a) Authorization.--An ordinance providing for a public improvement, the expense of which is to be defrayed by an assessment against properties benefited by the public improvement, may authorize payment of the assessment in installments. The ordinance shall: (1) Set a time when t…

(a) Authority.--Council shall have the power to authorize the city treasurer or other city official to collect assessments. (b) Procedure.--The following shall apply to the collection of assessments: (1) A city may collect an assessment that remains unpaid for 60 days after perso…

(a) Civil action.--In addition to the remedies provided by this part or any other law for the filing of liens for the collection of municipal claims, including water rates, sewer rates and the removal of nuisances, a city may proceed for the recovery and collection of municipal c…

(a) Agreement.--Council may agree with the owner of the real estate to accept a sum less than the whole of the amount of a municipal claim due, in compromise or reduction of the amount of the claim and the interest charges, expenses and fees added to and due on the claim, if: (1)…

It is intended that this part furnish a complete and exclusive system for the government and regulation of cities, except as provided for in section 10103 (relating to excluded provisions).

Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to repeal: (1) The provisions of the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.903, No.362), entitled "An act authorizing cities of the third class to establish an optional retirement system for officers and employes independently of any pension s…