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42 PA Cons Stat § 5530 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5530 - Twenty-one year limitation

§ 5530. Twenty-one year limitation. (a) General rule.--The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within 21 years:  (1) Except as provided in section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation), an action for the possession of real property.  (2) An action for the payment of any ground rent, annuity or other charge upon real property, or any part or portion thereof. If this paragraph shall operate to bar any payment of such a rent, annuity or charge, the rent, annuity or charge to which the payment relates shall be extinguished and no further action may be commenced with respect to subsequent payments.  (3) (Deleted by amendment). (b) Entry upon land.--No entry upon real property shall toll the running of the period of limitation specified in subsection (a)(1), unless a possessory action shall be commenced therefor within one year after entry. Such an entry and commencement of a possessory action, without recovery therein, shall not toll the running of such period of limitation in respect of another possessory action, unless such other possessory action is commenced within one year after the termination of the first.  (May 4, 2006, P.L.112, No.34, eff. 120 days; June 19, 2018, P.L.223, No.34, eff. one year)    2018 Amendment. Act 34 amended subsec. (a)(1).  2006 Amendment. Act 34 deleted subsec. (a)(3). Section 6(1) of Act 34 provided that Act 34 shall apply to all condemnations effected on or after the effective date of section 6. Section (6)(3) of Act 34 provided that the amendment of subsec. (a)(3) shall apply only to causes of action which accrue after the effective date of section 6.  Cross References. Section 5530 is referred to in section 5527.1 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5531 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5531 - No limitation

§ 5531. No limitation. The following actions and proceedings may be commenced at any time notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter except section 5521 (relating to limitations on foreign claims):  (1) An action against an attorney at law by or on behalf of a client to enforce any implied or resulting trust as to real property.  (2) An action by the Commonwealth, a county or an institution district against the real or personal property of persons who were public charges, including mental patients, to recover the cost of their maintenance and support.  (3) An action by the Commonwealth, a county or an institution district against the real or personal property of persons who were legally liable to pay for the maintenance and support of persons who were public charges, including mental patients, to recover the cost of their maintenance and support.    Cross References. Section 5531 is referred to in section 5527 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5532 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5532 - Absence or concealment

 § 5532. Absence or concealment. (a) General rule.--If, when a cause of action accrues against a person, he is without this Commonwealth, the time within which the action or proceeding must be commenced shall be computed from the time he comes into or returns to this Commonwealth. If, after a cause of action has accrued against a person, he departs from this Commonwealth and remains continuously absent therefrom for four months or more, or he resides within this Commonwealth under a false name which is unknown to the person entitled to commence the action or proceeding, the time of his absence or residence within this Commonwealth under such a false name is not a part of the time within which the action or proceeding must be commenced.  (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply in any of the following cases:  (1) While there is in force a designation, voluntary or involuntary, made pursuant to law, of a person to whom process may be delivered within this Commonwealth with the same effect as if served personally within this Commonwealth.  (2) While a foreign corporation has one or more officers or other persons in this Commonwealth on whom process against such corporation may be served.  (3) While jurisdiction over the person of the defendant can be obtained without personal delivery of process to him within this Commonwealth.  (c) Fraudulent concealment.--In the case of a civil action or proceeding against the trustee of an express or implied trust, the time within which such an action or proceeding by or on behalf of a beneficiary on account of fraud must be commenced shall be computed from the discovery of the fraud, or when, by reasonable diligence, the person defrauded might have discovered the fraud. This subsection shall not prevent a bona fide purchaser for value from pleading the applicable statute of limitations.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5534 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5534 - War

 § 5534. War. (a) Cause of action accruing in foreign country.--Where a cause of action, whether originally accrued in favor of a resident or nonresident of this Commonwealth, accrued in a foreign country with which the United States or any of its allies were then or subsequently at war, or territory then or subsequently occupied by the government of such foreign country, the time which elapsed between the commencement of the war, or of such occupation, and the termination of hostilities with such country, or of such occupation, is not a part of the time within which the civil action or proceeding must be commenced, notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter.  (b) Alien a party.--Where a person is unable to commence an action or proceeding within this Commonwealth because any party is an alien subject or citizen of a foreign country at war with the United States or any of its allies, whether the cause of action accrued during or prior to the war, the time which elapsed between the commencement of the war and the termination of hostilities with such country is not a part of the time within which the civil action or proceeding must be commenced, notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter.  (c) Nonenemy in enemy country or enemy-occupied territory.--Where a person entitled to commence an action or proceeding, other than a person entitled to the benefits of subsection (b), is a resident of, or a sojourner in, a foreign country with which the United States or any of its allies are at war, or territory occupied by the government of such foreign country, the period of such residence or sojourn during which the war continues or the territory is so occupied is not a part of the time within which the civil action or proceeding must be commenced, notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5535 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5535 - Effect of other actions and proceedings

 § 5535. Effect of other actions and proceedings. (a) Termination of prior matter.-- (1) If a civil action or proceeding is timely commenced and is terminated, a party, or his successor in interest, may, notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, commence a new action or proceeding upon the same cause of action within one year after the termination and any other party may interpose any defense or claim which might have been interposed in the original action or proceeding.  (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to: (i) An action to recover damages for injury to the person or for the death of an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect or unlawful violence or negligence of another.  (ii) An action or proceeding terminated by a voluntary nonsuit, a discontinuance, a dismissal for neglect to prosecute the action or proceeding, or a final judgment upon the merits.  (b) Stay of matter.--Where the commencement of a civil action or proceeding has been stayed by a court or by statutory prohibition, the duration of the stay is not a part of the time within which the action or proceeding must be commenced.  (c) Arbitration.--Where it shall have been finally determined by a court that a party is not obligated to submit a claim to arbitration, the time which elapsed between the demand for arbitration and the final determination by a court that there is no obligation to arbitrate is not a part of the time within which a civil action or proceeding upon such claim must be commenced. The time within which the action or proceeding must be commenced shall not be extended by this subsection beyond one year after such final determination by a court.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; Oct. 5, 1980, P.L.693, No.142, eff. 60 days)    1980 Amendment. Act 142 amended subsec. (c).  1978 Amendment. Act 53 amended subsec. (a).  Cross References. Section 5535 is referred to in section 5103 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5536 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5536 - Construction projects

 § 5536. Construction projects. (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a civil action or proceeding brought against any person lawfully performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of any improvement to real property must be commenced within 12 years after completion of construction of such improvement to recover damages for:  (1) Any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction or construction of the improvement.  (2) Injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency. (3) Injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency. (4) Contribution or indemnity for damages sustained on account of any injury mentioned in paragraph (2) or (3).  (b) Exceptions.-- (1) If an injury or wrongful death shall occur more than ten and within 12 years after completion of the improvement a civil action or proceeding within the scope of subsection (a) may be commenced within the time otherwise limited by this subchapter, but not later than 14 years after completion of construction of such improvement.  (2) The limitation prescribed by subsection (a) shall not be asserted by way of defense by any person in actual possession or control, as owner, tenant or otherwise, of such an improvement at the time any deficiency in such an improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or wrongful death for which it is proposed to commence an action or proceeding.  (c) No extension of limitations.--This section shall not extend the period within which any civil action or proceeding may be commenced under any provision of law.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)   1978 Amendment. Act 53 amended subsecs. (a) and (b).
42 PA Cons Stat § 5537 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5537 - Land surveying

§ 5537. Land surveying. All actions to recover any or all damages against any person engaged in the practice of land surveying occurring as the result of any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be commenced within 12 years from the time the services are performed. Any such action not commenced within this 12-year period shall be forever barred. The cause of action in such cases shall accrue when the services are performed. Furthermore, any action shall be commenced within four years from the time that such cause of action was discovered, but no later than during this 12-year limitation period. In any event, no action shall be commenced after the 12 years from the time that the services are performed. The term "practice of land surveying" shall be the same as defined under the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.913, No.367), known as the Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law.   (June 30, 1988, P.L.464, No.79, eff. imd.; July 7, 2006, P.L.348, No.72, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5538 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5538 - Landscape architecture

§ 5538. Landscape architecture. (a) General rule.--All actions to recover any or all damages against any person engaged in the practice of landscape architecture occurring as the result of any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be commenced within 12 years from the time the services are performed. Any such action not commenced within this 12-year period shall be forever barred. The cause of action shall accrue upon substantial completion of the project. Nothing in this section shall be construed as extending the period prescribed by the laws of this Commonwealth for the bringing of any action. The term "practice of landscape architecture" shall be the same as defined in the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1527, No.535), known as the Landscape Architects' Registration Law.  (b) Exception.--The limitation prescribed by subsection (a) shall not be asserted by way of defense by any person in actual possession or control, as owner, tenant or otherwise, of such an improvement at the time any deficiency in such an improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or wrongful death for which it is proposed to commence an action or proceeding.   (June 30, 1988, P.L.464, No.79, eff. imd.)   1988 Amendment. Act 79 added section 5538.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5539 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5539 - Real estate appraisals

§ 5539. Real estate appraisals. (a) General rule.--Except as provided under subsection (b), an action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser arising out of the appraiser's real estate appraisal activity shall be brought within five years after the date the appraisal was conducted.  (b) Exception.--An action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser under subsection (a) may be filed more than five years after the date the appraisal was conducted if:  (1) there is evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation on the part of the real estate appraiser; or  (2) the appraisal was performed for a consumer as part of the purchase or sale of single-family residential real property not involving a lender.  (Dec. 22, 2021, P.L.452, No.93, eff. 60 days)   2021 Amendment. Act 93 added section 5539. Section 2 of Act 93 provided that the five-year period of repose under section 5539 shall not apply to a cause of action which has accrued on or before the effective date of section 2.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5551 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5551 - No limitation applicable

§ 5551. No limitation applicable. A prosecution for the following offenses may be commenced at any time: (1) Murder. (2) Voluntary manslaughter. (3) Conspiracy to commit murder or solicitation to commit murder if a murder results from the conspiracy or solicitation.  (4) Any felony alleged to have been perpetrated in connection with a murder of the first or second degree, as set forth in 18 Pa.C.S. § 2502(a) or (b) and (d) (relating to murder).  (5) A violation of 75 Pa.C.S. § 3742 (relating to accidents involving death or personal injury) or 3732 (relating to homicide by vehicle) if the accused was the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in the death of any person.  (6) A violation of 18 Pa.C.S. § 2702(a)(1), (2), (4) or (7) (relating to aggravated assault) if the accused knew the victim was a law enforcement officer and the law enforcement officer was acting within the scope of the officer's duties.  (7) An offense under any of the following provisions of 18 Pa.C.S. (relating to crimes and offenses), or a conspiracy or solicitation to commit an offense under any of the following provisions of 18 Pa.C.S. if the offense results from the conspiracy or solicitation, if the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense:  Section 3011(b) (relating to trafficking in individuals). Section 3012 (relating to involuntary servitude) as it relates to sexual servitude. Section 3121 (relating to rape). Section 3122.1 (relating to statutory sexual assault). Section 3123 (relating to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse). Section 3124.1 (relating to sexual assault). Section 3124.2 (relating to institutional sexual assault). Section 3125 (relating to aggravated indecent assault). Section 4302 (relating to incest). (Oct. 5, 1980, P.L.693, No.142, eff. 60 days; Dec. 14, 1984, P.L.986, No.199, eff. 60 days; Dec. 19, 1984, P.L.1089, No.218, eff. imd.; Apr. 5, 1990, P.L.113, No.27, eff. 60 days; July 17, 2007, P.L.123, No.37, eff. 60 days; Nov. 26, 2019, P.L.641, No.87, eff. Nov. 26, 2019)    2019 Amendment. Act 87 added par. (7). See sections 9 and 10(1) of Act 87 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to severability and applicability.  2007 Amendment. Act 37 amended the entire section. Section 5 of Act 37 provided that the addition of par. (6) which provides for a new statute of limitations for certain violations of 18 Pa.C.S. § 2702(a)(1), (2), (4) or (7) shall apply to such aggravated assaults committed after the effective date of section 5.  Cross References. Section 5551 is referred to in sections 5552, 8522, 8542 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5553 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5553 - Summary offenses involving vehicles

§ 5553. Summary offenses involving vehicles. (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c), proceedings for summary offenses under Title 75 (relating to vehicles) must be commenced within 30 days after the commission of the alleged offense or within 30 days after the discovery of the commission of the offense or the identity of the offender, whichever is later, and not thereafter.  (b) Minor offenses.--(Deleted by amendment).  (c) Exceptions.-- (1) Where proceedings are timely commenced against a person reasonably believed to have committed the summary offense or offenses charged and it subsequently appears that a person other than the person charged is the offender, proceedings may be commenced against the other person within 30 days after the identity of the person is discovered and not thereafter.  (2) Proceedings for summary offenses under Title 75 may be commenced within 365 days after the commission of the offense, the discovery of the commission of the offense or the discovery of the identity of the offender, whichever is later, and not thereafter if the offense involved an accident resulting in the bodily injury or death of any person.  (3) Where a police officer reasonably believes that there are multiple summary offenses arising out of the same conduct or the same criminal episode and that an offense under 75 Pa.C.S. § 1543 (relating to driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked) has occurred, proceedings on all summary offenses arising from the conduct or episode may be commenced at the same time and must be commenced within 30 days after the commission of the alleged offenses or within 30 days after the discovery of the commission of the offenses or the identity of the offender or within 30 days after the police officer receives verification of the basis for the suspension from the Department of Transportation as required under 75 Pa.C.S. § 1543(d), whichever is later, and not thereafter.  (d) Local ordinances on overtime parking.--Local ordinances pertaining to overtime parking shall be subject to the provisions of this section.  (e) Disposition of proceedings within three years.--No proceedings shall be held or action taken pursuant to a summary offense under Title 75 subsequent to three years after the commission of the offense.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; Oct. 5, 1980, P.L.693, No.142, eff. 60 days; June 15, 1982, P.L.512, No.141, eff. 60 days; Nov. 29, 2004, P.L.1325, No.166, eff. 60 days; Nov. 29, 2004, P.L.1364, No.176, eff. imd.)    2004 Amendments. Act 166 amended subsecs. (c) and (e) and Act 176 amended subsecs. (a) and (c) and deleted subsec. (b). Act 176 overlooked the amendment by Act 166, but the amendments do not conflict in substance and have both been given effect in setting forth the text of section 5553.  Cross References. Section 5553 is referred to in section 5554 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5554 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5554 - Tolling of statute

§ 5554. Tolling of statute. Except as provided by section 5553(e) (relating to disposition of proceedings within two years), the period of limitation does not run during any time when:  (1) the accused is continuously absent from this Commonwealth or has no reasonably ascertainable place of abode or work within this Commonwealth;  (2) a prosecution against the accused for the same conduct is pending in this Commonwealth; or  (3) a child is under 18 years of age, where the crime involves injuries to the person of the child caused by the wrongful act, or neglect, or unlawful violence, or negligence of the child's parents or by a person responsible for the child's welfare, or any individual residing in the same home as the child, or a paramour of the child's parent.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; July 10, 1985, P.L.193, No.49, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5572 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5572 - Time of entry of order

§ 5572. Time of entry of order. The date of service of an order of a government unit, which shall be the date of mailing if service is by mail, shall be deemed to be the date of entry of the order for the purposes of this subchapter. The date of entry of an order of a court or magisterial district judge may be specified by general rules.  (Nov. 30, 2004, P.L.1618, No.207, eff. 60 days)   2004 Amendment. See section 29 of Act 207 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to construction of law.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5573 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5573 - Effect of application for rehearing

§ 5573. Effect of application for rehearing. If an application for rehearing or reconsideration of an order is made to a tribunal the effect thereof on the time for appeal from such order shall be governed by general rules adopted pursuant to section 1722(a) (relating to adoption of administrative and procedural rules).   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5574 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time|Section 5574 - Effect of application for amendment to qualify for interlocutory appeal

§ 5574. Effect of application for amendment to qualify for interlocutory appeal. If an application is made to a tribunal within 30 days after the entry of an interlocutory order not appealable as a matter of right for an amendment of such order to set forth expressly the statement specified in section 702(b) (relating to interlocutory appeals by permission), the time for filing a petition for permission to appeal from such order shall run from the entry of the order denying the amendment or amending the order, as the case may be.