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PRINTER'S NO. 88
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
114
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY EICHELBERGER, TARTAGLIONE, MENSCH, RAFFERTY AND
WHITE, JANUARY 13, 2017
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 13, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further
providing for purposes and powers.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5607(d)(11) of Title 53 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 5607. Purposes and powers.
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(d) Powers.--Every authority may exercise all powers
necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the purposes set
forth in this section, including, but without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the following rights and powers:
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(11) (i) In the case of an authority which has agreed
to provide sewer service to a residential dwelling unit
in which the owner does not reside, to impose and enforce
the owner's duty to pay a tenant's bill for service
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rendered by the authority to the tenant. The authority
shall notify the owner and the tenant within 30 days
after the tenant's bill for that service first becomes
overdue. Notification shall be provided by first class
mail to the address of the owner provided to the
authority by the owner and to the billing address of the
tenant, respectively. Nothing in this paragraph shall be
construed to relieve the owner of liability for such
service unless the authority fails to provide the notice
required in this paragraph.
(ii) In the case of an authority that has agreed to
provide sewer service to a nonresidential property owner
and that owner has failed to pay a sewer bill for at
least six months, to seek a judicial order for
termination of sewer service for nonpayment. If a lien
has been filed under the act of May 16, 1923 (P.L.207,
No.153), referred to as the Municipal Claim and Tax Lien
Law, an action for termination of service may be brought
in any court of competent jurisdiction. If an order is
issued, termination of service to the premises may be
commenced by the authority only after:
(A) the sending of notice to the defendant by
certified mail at least one week prior to the sewer
service shutoff date;
(B) a posting on the premises that sewer service
shutoff will occur in 24 hours; and
(C) a written notice to the local or county
health department, if one exists, and the regional
office of the Department of Environmental Protection
one week prior to the service shutoff.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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