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53 PA Cons Stat § 3171 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 31 - General Provisions Common to Optional Plans|Section 3171 - Repeal of optional plan and establishment of new form of government

§ 3171. Repeal of optional plan and establishment of new form of government.   (a) General rule.--The procedure for repeal of an optional plan shall be the same as for adoption of an optional plan as provided in Subchapter B of Chapter 29 (relating to procedure for adoption of home rule charter or optional plan of government), excluding the procedure provided in sections 2942 (relating to initiation of amendment by electors or council), 2943 (relating to petition for referendum or ordinance proposing amendment) and 2944 (relating to time and manner of submission of question). Whenever the electors, by a majority vote of those voting on the question, vote in favor of repeal of an optional plan and the establishment of a particular form of government, the municipality shall be governed under the form of government selected by the electors. The form of government so approved shall take effect on the first Monday of January following the municipal election at which the elective officials of the form of government selected by the electors shall have been elected. The government study commission shall provide in its report for the new form of government to be established.  (b) Amendment procedure.--This section does not prohibit or limit the procedure provided in sections 2942, 2943 and 2944 to amend an optional plan.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5401 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 54 - Business Improvement Districts|Section 5401 - Short title and scope of chapter

§ 5401. Short title and scope of chapter. (a) Short title of chapter.--This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Business Improvement District Act.  (b) Scope of chapter.--This chapter applies to municipal corporations.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5402 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 54 - Business Improvement Districts|Section 5402 - Definitions

§ 5402. Definitions.  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  "Costs of improvements." Engineering, architectural, attorney or other consulting fees, preliminary planning, feasibility studies, financing costs and other costs necessary and incidental to the completion of the improvement.  "Municipal corporation." Any city, borough or incorporated town.  (May 5, 1998, P.L.301, No.50, eff. 60 days)    1998 Amendment. Act 50 added the def. of "municipal corporation."
53 PA Cons Stat § 5403 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 54 - Business Improvement Districts|Section 5403 - Powers of governing body

§ 5403. Powers of governing body.  The governing body of every municipal corporation shall have the power: (1) To establish within the municipal corporation an area or areas designated as a business improvement district, which district or districts may be designated as all or part of any community which is zoned commercial or which is used for general commercial purposes. (2) To appropriate and expend those amounts as may be necessary for preliminary planning or feasibility studies to determine needed improvements in business improvement districts, to recommend improvement to individual properties and to provide where required basic design criteria. Public hearings shall be required before passage of the enabling ordinance at which any interested party may be heard. Notice of the hearings shall be advertised at least ten days prior thereto in a newspaper circulating in the municipal corporation. The ordinance shall specify improvements, with respective costs. The ordinance shall not become effective if, before the expiration of 20 days after its enactment, property owners of the proposed district whose property valuation as assessed for taxable purposes amounts to more than 50% of the total property valuation of the district sign and file in the office of the prothonotary of the court of common pleas a written protest against the ordinance. (3) To appropriate and expend in accordance with the specific provisions of the enabling ordinance such amounts as may be required to acquire by purchase or lease real or personal property to effectuate the purposes of the improvement district, including sidewalks, retaining walls, street paving, street lighting, parking lots, parking garages, trees and shrubbery purchased and planted, pedestrian walks, sewers, water lines and rest areas and acquisition and remodeling or demolition of blighted buildings and similar or comparable structures. No improvement shall be made to property which has not been acquired. (4) To acquire by gift, purchase or eminent domain, land, real property or rights-of-way which may be needed for the purposes of the projected improvements within the district. (5) To issue bonds, notes or guarantees in accordance with the provisions of general laws authorizing borrowing by cities of the first class or in accordance with Subpart B of Part VII (relating to indebtedness and borrowing), whichever is applicable, in the amounts and for the periods necessary to finance the projected improvements for any district.    Cross References. Section 5403 is referred to in section 5404 of this title.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5404 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 54 - Business Improvement Districts|Section 5404 - Administrative services provided by cities of the second class

§ 5404. Administrative services provided by cities of the second class.  In addition to the powers of the governing body established in section 5403 (relating to powers of governing body), cities of the second class shall have the power to provide administrative services: that is, those services which improve the ability of the commercial establishments of the district to serve the consumer, including, but not limited to, free or reduced fee parking for customers, transportation repayments, public relations programs, group advertising and district maintenance and security services.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5405 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 54 - Business Improvement Districts|Section 5405 - Assessment authorized

§ 5405. Assessment authorized.  The governing body may impose an assessment on each benefited property within a business improvement district which shall be determined by the total cost of the improvements in the district but not in excess of the amount legally assessable.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5501 - Scope of chapter

§ 5501. Scope of chapter. This chapter deals with parking authorities.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5502 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5502 - Declaration of policy

§ 5502. Declaration of policy.  The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) Residential decentralization in municipalities has been accompanied by an ever-increasing trend in the number of persons entering the business sections by private automobile and other types of motor vehicles. (2) The free circulation of traffic of all kinds through the streets of municipalities is necessary for the health, safety and general welfare of the public, whether residing in or traveling to, through or from such municipalities in the course of lawful pursuits. (3) The greatly increased use by the public of motor vehicles of all kinds has caused serious traffic congestion on the streets of municipalities. (4) The parking or standing of motor vehicles of all kinds on the streets has contributed to this congestion to such an extent as to interfere seriously with the primary use of such streets for the movement of traffic. (5) Parking or standing prevents the free circulation of traffic in, through and from the municipality; impedes rapid and effective fighting of fires and the disposition of police forces in the district; and endangers the health, safety and welfare of the general public. (6) Parking or standing threatens irreparable loss in valuations of property in the municipality which can no longer be readily reached by vehicular traffic. (7) This parking crisis, which threatens the welfare of the community, can be reduced by administering and enforcing an efficient system of on-street regulations and by providing sufficient off-street parking and parking terminal facilities properly located in the several residential, commercial and industrial areas of the municipality. (8) The establishment of authorities will promote the public safety, convenience and welfare. (9) It is intended that the authority cooperate with all existing parking and parking terminal facilities so that private enterprise and government may mutually provide adequate parking services for the convenience of the public. (10) The safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth is promoted by the creation in municipalities of authorities which shall exist and operate for the purposes contained in this chapter. Such purposes are declared to be public uses for which public money may be spent, and private property may be acquired by the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5508 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5508 - Governing body

§ 5508. Governing body.   (a) Scope.--This section does not apply to cities of the first class.  (b) Board.--  (1) The powers of an authority shall be exercised by a board composed of five members. The majority of the members must be residents of the municipality where the authority is located. Each member must be a resident of the county in which the municipality is located or maintain a business in the municipality served by the authority. (2) The mayor of the city, the president of the borough council, the president of the board of township commissioners, as applicable, shall appoint the members of the board. (3) Beginning on June 1, 1947: (i) one member shall serve for one year; (ii) one member shall serve for two years; (iii) one member shall serve for three years; (iv) one member shall serve for four years; and (v) one member shall serve for five years. (4) After initial terms, the appointing officer shall, not sooner than 60 days nor later than 30 days prior to June 1 in each year in which a vacancy occurs, appoint a member of the board for a term of five years to fill the vacancy. (5) A vacancy for an unexpired term which occurs more than 60 days before the end of a term shall be promptly filled by appointment by appointing authority. (6) Members of the board may be removed at the will of the appointing authority.  (c) Succession.--A member shall hold office until a successor has been appointed. A member may succeed himself or herself.  (d) Compensation.--A member shall receive no compensation for services but shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of duties.  (e) Officers.--The members of the board shall select from among themselves a chair, a vice chair and other officers as the board may determine. The board may employ a secretary, an executive director, its own counsel and legal staff and technical experts and other agents and employees, permanent or temporary, as it requires and may determine the qualifications and fix the compensation of such individuals.  (f) Quorum.--Three members of the board constitute a quorum for meetings.  (g) Liability.--A member of the board shall not be liable personally on a bond or other obligations of the authority. Rights of creditors shall be solely against the authority.  (h) Delegation.--The board may delegate to an agent or employee powers as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, subject to the supervision and control of the board.  (i) Management.--The board has authority to manage the property and business of the authority and to prescribe, amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations governing the manner in which the business of the authority may be conducted and in which the powers granted to the authority may be exercised.  (Feb. 10, 2004, P.L.69, No.9, eff. 60 days)    2004 Amendment. Act 9 amended subsec. (b)(1).
53 PA Cons Stat § 5508.3 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5508.3 - Restrictions on authorities in cities of the first class

§ 5508.3. Restrictions on authorities in cities of the first class.   (a) Restricted activities, statement of financial interests; public meetings and records.--  (1) The following apply: (i) The provisions of the following statutes are specifically applicable to board members, officers and employees of the authority: (A) The provisions of 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 11 (relating to ethics standards and financial disclosure). (B) The act of July 19, 1957 (P.L.1017, No.451), known as the State Adverse Interest Act. (ii) For the purposes of application of statutes pursuant to subparagraph (i), employees of the authority shall be regarded as public employees of the Commonwealth, and officers or board members of the authority shall be regarded as public officials of the Commonwealth, whether or not they receive compensation. (2) The authority shall be subject to and treated as a Commonwealth agency for purposes of the act of June 21, 1957 (P.L.390, No.212), referred to as the Right-to-Know Law.  (b) Conviction of infamous crime.--No person convicted of an infamous crime shall be a member of the board or employed as a management-level employee by the authority.  (c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection: "Infamous crime." Any of the following: (1) A violation and conviction for an offense which would disqualify an individual from holding public office pursuant to section 7 of Article II of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. (2) Any conviction for a violation of 18 Pa.C.S. § 4113 (relating to misapplication of entrusted property and property of government or financial institutions) or 18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 47 (relating to bribery and corrupt influence), 49 (relating to falsification and intimidation), 51 (relating to obstructing governmental operations) or 53 (relating to abuse of office). (3) Any other violation of the laws of this Commonwealth for which an individual has been convicted within the preceding ten years and which is classified as a felony. (4) A violation of the law of any other Federal or state government which is similar to the crimes listed in paragraphs (1) through (3). (July 16, 2004, P.L.758, No.94, eff. imd.)    2004 Amendment. Act 94 added section 5508.3.  References in Text. The act of June 21, 1957 (P.L.390, No.212), referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), was repealed by the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5509 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5509 - Acquisition of lands

§ 5509. Acquisition of lands.   (a) Authorization.--  (1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the authority has the power to acquire by purchase or eminent domain proceedings either the fee or the rights, title, interest or easement in such lands as the authority deems necessary for any of the purposes of this chapter. (2) The right of eminent domain does not apply to any of the following: (i) Property devoted to a public use. (ii) Property of a public service company. (iii) Property used for burial purposes. (iv) A place of public worship. (v) Property which on June 5, 1947, with respect to the appropriate municipality was used as a facility for the parking of motor vehicles as long as: (A) the property is continuously so used; and (B) the operation of the facility complies with parking and traffic ordinances of the municipality.  (b) Exercise.--  (1) The right of eminent domain shall be exercised by the authority in the manner provided by law for the exercise of such right by the parent municipality. (2) Viewers may take into consideration and may assess damages for expenses incurred for the removal of fixtures, equipment and merchandise. (3) The right of eminent domain under this section may be exercised only within the municipality in which the authority is located.  (c) Priority.--Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all causes not involving the public interest in all courts so that the provision of parking facilities may be expedited.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5510 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5510 - Money of authority

§ 5510. Money of authority.   (a) Treasurer.--  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all money of an authority from whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the authority. (2) The money shall be deposited in the first instance by the treasurer at the direction of the authority: (i) in one or more banks or bank and trust companies in one or more special accounts; or (ii) under savings contracts in savings associations in one or more special accounts. (3) Each special account under paragraph (2) to the extent the account is not insured shall be continuously secured by a pledge of direct obligations of the United States of America, of the Commonwealth or of the parent municipality having an aggregate market value exclusive of accrued interest at all times at least equal to the balance on deposit in the account. Such securities shall either be deposited with the treasurer or be held by a trustee or agent satisfactory to the authority. All banks, bank and trust companies and savings associations are authorized to give such security for such deposits. The money in the special accounts shall be paid out on the warrant or other order of the chair of the authority or of such other person the authority authorizes to execute the warrants or orders. (4) In the case of money collected or received by the authority on behalf of a municipality under section 5505(d)(21) (relating to purposes and powers), the money shall be pledged to the use of the municipality and disbursed to the municipality as provided by ordinance or resolution.  (b) Audit.--An authority shall have at least an annual examination of its books, accounts and records by a certified public accountant. A copy of the audit shall be delivered to the parent municipality.  (c) Financial statement.--A concise financial statement shall be published annually at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality where the principal office of the authority is located. If publication is not made by the authority, the municipality shall publish such statement at the expense of the authority. If the authority fails to make the audit, then the controller, auditor or accountant designated by the municipality is authorized to examine at the expense of the authority the accounts and books of the authority, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts, leases, sinking funds, investments and other matters relating to its finances, operation and affairs.  (d) Attorney General.--The Attorney General shall have the right to examine the books, accounts and records of an authority.
53 PA Cons Stat § 5510.2 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5510.2 - Special funds in cities of the first class

§ 5510.2. Special funds in cities of the first class.   (a) General rule.--An authority, under resolutions adopted from time to time by the board, may establish and create such special funds as may be found desirable by the board and, in and by such resolutions, may provide for payments into all special funds from specified sources with such preferences and priorities as may be deemed advisable and may provide for the custody, disbursement and application of any moneys in any such special funds consistent with the provisions of this chapter and consistent with generally accepted accounting principles.  (b) Applicability.--This section shall only apply to authorities in cities of the first class. (Dec. 30, 2002, P.L.2001, No.230, eff. 60 days; July 16, 2004, P.L.758, No.94, eff. imd.; July 9, 2013, P.L.455, No.64, eff. imd.)    2004 Amendment. See sections 20(3) and 21(3) of Act 94 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission contracts and preservation of rights, obligations, duties and remedies.  2004 Unconstitutionality. Act 230 of 2002 was declared unconstitutional. City of Philadelphia v. Commonwealth, 838 A.2d 566 (Pa. 2003).
53 PA Cons Stat § 5510.4 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY|Chapter 55 - Parking Authorities|Section 5510.4 - Contracts with obligees of an authority in cities of the first class

§ 5510.4. Contracts with obligees of an authority in cities of the first class.   (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in any resolution of an authority authorizing or awarding bonds, the terms thereof and of this chapter as in effect when the bonds were authorized shall constitute a contract between the authority and obligees of the authority, subject to modification in such manner as the resolution, the trust indenture securing such bonds or the bonds shall provide.  (b) Applicability.--This section shall only apply to authorities in cities of the first class. (Dec. 30, 2002, P.L.2001, No.230, eff. 60 days; July 16, 2004, P.L.758, No.94, eff. imd.)    2004 Amendment. Act 94 reenacted section 5510.4. See sections 20(3) and 21(3) of Act 94 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission contracts and preservation of rights, obligations, duties and remedies.  2004 Unconstitutionality. Act 230 of 2002 was declared unconstitutional. City of Philadelphia v. Commonwealth, 838 A.2d 566 (Pa. 2003).