PRINTER'S NO. 982
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
880
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY DOWLING, WARNER, PICKETT, MILLARD, ZIMMERMAN,
RADER AND PHILLIPS-HILL, MARCH 16, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 16, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L.1242, No.428), entitled
"An act relating to roads, streets, highways and bridges;
amending, revising, consolidating and changing the laws
administered by the Secretary of Highways and by the
Department of Highways relating thereto," in designation and
location of State highways, further providing for maintenance
of parts of roads abandoned as State highways and vacation
when not of full width.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 214 of the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L.1242,
No.428), known as the State Highway Law, is amended to read:
Section 214. Maintenance of Parts of Roads Abandoned as
State Highways; Vacation when not of Full Width.--Where any
section of a State highway route shall be, or has been
relocated, the portion of the public road or highway, thus
abandoned as a State highway route, shall be maintained by, and
at the expense of, the township, borough, incorporated town or
city wherein it is located, but the department shall in each
case, before abandoning such portion of public road or highway,
receive approval by ordinance or resolution of the governing
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body of the township, borough, incorporated town or city wherein
it is located, and improve and repair the same so that it shall
be in first class condition when it is taken over by the
township, borough, incorporated town or city.
Where the width, lines or location of a State highway shall
be or have been changed, altered or established, according to
law, in a manner which does not create an entirely new highway,
the section or sections, or portions of the right of way of the
highway, as previously established, which are not included
within the changed, altered or established widths shall be
considered vacated, if such portions or sections are not of the
full width of the highway, as previously established.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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