PRINTER'S NO. 2812

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2234 Session of 1991


        INTRODUCED BY PESCI, MELIO, COLAIZZO, FAJT, STABACK, TIGUE,
           FARGO, TRELLO, GIGLIOTTI, HALUSKA, STEIGHNER, SALOOM, KENNEY,
           JOHNSON, JAMES AND BELARDI, NOVEMBER 26, 1991

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER 26, 1991

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, providing for notice in case of
     3     appropriation by right of eminent domain.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     7  Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
     8  § 1105.  Notice in case of appropriation by right of eminent
     9                 domain.
    10     A domestic public utility or foreign public utility
    11  authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and exercising
    12  any power of eminent domain within this Commonwealth shall
    13  notify in writing any affected property owner of his right to
    14  just compensation as specified in section 4 of Article X of the
    15  Constitution of Pennsylvania.
    16     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.


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