PREFACE
This publication was prepared pursuant to the direction of the

General Assembly contained in the General Appropriation Act of

July 16, 1917.

The necessity, at this time, of such a publication is apparent. At

the session of the General Assembly of 1915 the borough laws were

codified in an act known as “THE GENERAL BOROUGH ACT."

The main purpose of this act was to produce a systematic, harmo-

rious, and simplified arrangement of the borough law. Approxi-

mately two hundred and seventy-five acts of Assembly were re-

pealed by this act.

Being substantially a re-enactment of the existing law, the source

of the various provisions of the code is of immeasurable value to the
student of this branch of the law. With this information the reader
may readily ascertain the various adjudications theretofore made
by the courts and trace the history of the legislation.

In addition to the provisions of "THE GENERAL BOROUGH

ACT,” this publication contains in the appendix, the laws on sub-

jects excluded from the code, arranged by chapters. Such for in-

stance are chapters on Municipal Claims, Indebtedness, Public

Health, State and State-aid Roads, etc. This appendix also contains

the acts passed at the sessions of 1915 and 1917, which were not

included in the code.

After each section and clause of the General Borough Act has

been inserted a note, giving a citation of the act from which the
section or clause in question was drafted, and noting such changes
as were made from the original act. The act has also been fully
annotated with such cases as have been decided since its adoption.
The acts published in the appendix have been annotated with all
the leading cases.

A table of cases, table of acts, and an analytical index have been
added after the appendix.

For convenience in indexing, and to facilitate use, new section

numbers, in parenthesis, have been inserted at the beginning of

each section and clause running consecutively through the publica-

tion.

We will appreciate if the reader will call to our attention any

errors or omissions.

JAMES N. MOORE,

Director

September 1. 1918

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The General Borough Act

Sec.

1-9

Chapter

Chapter

I. Article 1. Preliminary Provisions,

II. Creation. Charters,

Article 1. Incorporation,

Article II. Consolidation of Boroughs,.

Article III. Re-establishment of Boroughs,

Article IV. Division of Boroughs, ...

Article V. Amendment and Annulment of

Charters

10-40

10-20

21-25

26-31

32-37

38-40

Chapter

41-84

41-66

41-48

49-57

49-52

53-57

58-59

60-66

60-62

III. Change of Limits. Boundaries. Wards,

Article I. Change of Limits,

(a) On petition of freeholders of borough,

(b) By annexation on petition of free-

holders outside the borough, ...

(1) Where territory is in one county,

(2) Where territory is in two or more

counties,

(c) By anneaxtion on petition to council,

(d) By detachment of territory,

(1) Where it is annexed to a contigu-

ous township,

(2) By reason of natural or Artificial

causes,

Article II. Boundaries,

Article III. Wards,

IV. Article I. Adjustinent of Indebtedness,

(a) When incorporated from a township,

(b) When boroughs are re-established, ..

(c) When limits are changed and bor-

oughs divided,

(d) When territory is detached,

V. Articie I. General Powers,

63-66

67-77

78-84

Chapter

85-103

85-93

94-96

97-100

101-103

220-221

222-229

230-237

238-271

238-240

241-245

246-259

(a) Roads laid out by the Cominonwealth,
(b) Lanes and alleys declared nuisances

by Boards of Health,
Article VI. Roads Partly Within the Bor-

ough,
Article VII. Street Improvement,
(a) Grading streets, and assessment of

damages,
(b) Grading, curbing, paving, macadamiz-

ing streets on petition, and assess

ment according to benefits, ..
(c) Grading, curbing, paving or macadam-

izing streets and collection of cost

by foot-front rule, .....
(d) Grading, curbing, paving, macadamiz-

ing, boundary streets and streets

outside limits,
(1) By agreement with municipalities

and townships,
(2) By agreement with counties and

townships,
(3) Streets outside limits,
(f) Maintenance and improvement of con-

demned and abandoned turnpikes,..
(g) Maintenance and improvement of

streets connecting county roads, ..
(h) Assessments

property outside
limits,
(i) Expenditures for paving, curbing,

macadamizing streets,

260-264

260-262

263 264

265

266-269

on

270

271

Article VIII. Collection by installment of

Cost of Grading and Improving

Streets,
Article IX. Streets and Highways Crossing

Railroads,

272-280

281-282

283-288 283-285 286-288

Article X. Plans and Location of Streets,

(a) Plans of Streets,

(b) Location of Streets, Article XI. Sidewalks, (a) Grading, paving, repairing sidewalks,