PRINTER'S NO. 629
No. 597 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY LEWIS, MESSINGER, SCANLON, O'PAKE, EARLY, MELLOW
AND ORLANDO, MARCH 27, 1979
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 27, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), entitled
2 "An act concerning townships of the first class; amending,
3 revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating
4 thereto," authorizing the establishment or designation of
5 certain reserved areas to be used solely for parking by
6 handicapped individuals.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Clause XLIX of section 1502, act of June 24, 1931
10 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as "The First Class Township Code,"
11 reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569), is
12 amended to read:
13 Section 1502. The corporate power of a township of the first
14 class shall be vested in the board of township commissioners.
15 The board shall have power--
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17 XLIX. Parking and Parking Lots. To regulate parking, [and]
18 to provide parking accommodations so as to promote the
19 convenience and protection of the public and to establish or
20 designate, at the discretion of the commissioners, areas
1 exclusively reserved for parking by handicapped individuals; to
2 erect parking meters and to regulate parking meter charges and
3 to post signs regulating parking in areas established or
4 designated for handicapped parking. To acquire by gift or
5 purchase, or the right of eminent domain, lands for use as
6 parking lots, and to plan, design, locate, hold, construct,
7 improve, maintain, operate, own or lease, either in the capacity
8 of lessor or lessee and install facilities and equipment,
9 including parking meters, on any such land to be devoted to the
10 parking of vehicles of any kind, which in the judgment of the
11 board of township commissioners, may be necessary and desirable
12 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining such parking
13 lots and to regulate the use thereof. Whenever any lands shall
14 be acquired by any township for parking lots, they may be
15 operated by such townships as parking lots for parking vehicles
16 only, but not for the sale or distribution of any commodity, or
17 when so provided by ordinance or resolution, they may be let to
18 and for private operation as parking lots on such terms and
19 conditions as may be prescribed.
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21 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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