HIGHWAYS, CERTAIN STREETS AS Act of May 1, 1929, P.L. 1054, No. 409 Cl. 36 AN ACT Providing for assistance by the Commonwealth in the improvement, construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance of certain streets and highways in cities of the second class, second class A and third class; and for the assessment of benefits against owners of real estate abutting on the line of the improvement; and making an appropriation. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Department of Highways is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with cities of the second class, second class A, and third class providing for the improvement, construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance, in whole or in part, of the existing width, or of a lesser width, of any streets and highways in any such city which are not on the plan of the State highway system but which are continuations of State highways entering such cities, or running through such cities, or which furnish the shortest or most convenient route through such cities for the traveling public, and such agreements may provide that the improvement, construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance shall be done by the Department of Highways, or the city, or by contract let by the Department of Highways, or by the city, or by both, and that the Commonwealth shall, in either event, pay the whole or any portion of the cost of such improvement, construction, reconstruction and/or maintenance, the city to pay the remaining portion of such cost. Any city of the second class, second class A, or third class is hereby authorized to enter into any contract, as hereinbefore provided for, with the Department of Highways, and to expend the moneys of the city for such purposes. Any such agreement may also provide for the improvement, construction or reconstruction of a greater width of any such street or highway than that agreed to be paid for wholly or partly by the Commonwealth, and for the payment by the city, or by the assessment of benefits as hereinafter provided, or both, of the whole cost of any such additional width. Section 2. Said cities may, with or without petition of abutting property owners in the manner provided by law for the paving and improvement of their streets and highways, provide for the payment of their share of the cost of any original paving, construction or improvement of any portion thereof, and the entire cost or any portion thereof of any additional width not thus paid for by the Commonwealth by an equal assessment on the foot front rule, including the expenses of the necessary drainage, against the owners of property abutting on the line of the improvement, or the city may pay the entire cost of any such improvement, construction or reconstruction not thus paid by the Commonwealth. Section 3. Any such city is hereby authorized to incur or to increase its indebtedness by the issue and sale of obligations of the city, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided by law, for the purpose of improving, constructing or reconstructing any of its streets and highways in accordance with the provisions of this act. |