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8 PA Cons Stat § 1403 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1403 - Evasion of advertising requirements

§ 1403. Evasion of advertising requirements.   (a) Prohibition.--  (1) No member of council may evade section 1402 (relating to regulation of contracts) as to advertising for bids by purchasing or contracting for services and personal properties piecemeal for the purpose of obtaining prices under the amount specified or adjusted under section 1402(a) upon transactions, which transactions should, in the exercise of reasonable discretion and prudence, be conducted as one transaction amounting to more than the amount specified or adjusted under section 1402(a). (2) This subsection is intended to make unlawful the evading of advertising requirements by making a series of purchases or contracts, each for less than the advertising requirement price, or by making several simultaneous purchases or contracts, each below the price, when, in either case, the transactions involved should have been made as one transaction for one price. (3) Any members of council who vote in violation of this subsection and know that the transaction upon which they vote is or should be a part of a larger transaction and is being divided in order to evade the requirements as to advertising for bids shall be jointly and severally subject to a surcharge for 10% of the full amount of the contract or purchase. (4) If it appears that a member of council may have voted in violation of this section, but the purchase or contract on which the member of council voted was not approved by council, this section shall not apply.  (b) Penalty.--Any council member who votes to unlawfully evade the provisions of section 1402 and knows that the transaction upon which the member voted is or should be a part of a larger transaction and is being divided in order to evade the requirements as to advertising for bids commits a misdemeanor of the third degree for each contract entered into as a direct result of that vote. The penalty under this subsection shall be in addition to a surcharge that may be assessed under subsection (a).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1404 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1404 - Personal interest in contracts or purchases

§ 1404. Personal interest in contracts or purchases.  Elected and appointed borough officials and borough employees are restricted from an interest in borough contracts and purchases to the extent provided in 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 11 (relating to ethics standards and financial disclosure).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1404.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1404.1 - Purchase contracts for petroleum products and fire company, etc., participation

§ 1404.1. Purchase contracts for petroleum products and fire company, etc., participation.  The council of each borough shall have power to permit, subject to terms and conditions as it may and, as specifically provided, shall prescribe, a paid or volunteer fire company, paid or volunteer rescue company and paid or volunteer ambulance company in the borough to participate in purchase contracts for petroleum products entered into by the borough. A company desiring to participate in purchase contracts shall file with the borough secretary a request to authorize it to participate in contracts for the purchase of petroleum products of the borough and agreeing that it will be bound by the terms and conditions as the borough may and, as specifically provided, shall prescribe and that it will be responsible for payment directly to the vendor under each purchase contract. Among the terms and conditions, the borough shall prescribe that the prices must be F.O.B. destination.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1405 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1405 - Separate bids for plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical work

§ 1405. Separate bids for plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical work.  If, in the preparation for the erection, construction and alteration of a public building, the entire cost of the work exceeds the amount specified or adjusted under section 1402(a) (relating to regulation of contracts), the architect, engineer or other person preparing the specifications may, if requested by the council, prepare separate specifications for the plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical work. The person authorized to enter into contracts for the erection, construction or alteration of the public buildings may, if the separate specifications have been proposed, receive separate bids upon each of the branches of work and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder for each of the branches.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1406 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1406 - Bonds for the protection of labor and materials

§ 1406. Bonds for the protection of labor and materials.  Before a contract exceeding $10,000 is awarded to a prime contractor or construction manager for the construction, erection, installation, completion, alteration, repair of or addition to a public work or improvement of any kind, the contractor shall furnish to the borough a payment bond for the protection of claimants supplying labor or materials to the prime contractor to whom the contract is awarded, at 100% of the contract amount, conditioned for the prompt payment of the materials furnished or labor supplied or performed in the prosecution of the contract under the act of December 20, 1967 (P.L.869, No.385), known as the Public Works Contractors' Bond Law of 1967. The bond requirement is in addition to any other bond requirement required by law to be given in connection with the contract.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1407 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1407 - (Reserved)

§ 1407. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1408 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1408 - (Reserved)

§ 1408. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1409 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1409 - (Reserved)

§ 1409. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1410 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1410 - Acceptance by contractor of Workers' Compensation Act

§ 1410. Acceptance by contractor of Workers' Compensation Act.   (a) Contract provision.--A contract executed by a borough or an officer of a borough, which involves the construction or doing of work involving the employment of labor, must contain a provision that the contractor shall accept, insofar as the work covered by the contract is concerned, the provisions of the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), known as the Workers' Compensation Act, and the supplements and amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act, and that the contractor will insure his liability under the act and will file with the borough with which the contract is made a certificate of insurance providing evidence of the coverage or file with the borough with which the contract is made a certificate of exemption from insurance from the Bureau of Workers' Compensation of the Department of Labor and Industry. The certificate of exemption from insurance may be issued on the basis of either individual self-insurance or group self-insurance. Additionally, a contractor shall file with the borough with which the contract is made any applications to be excepted by the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act in respect to certain employees on religious grounds if the applications have been accepted by the Department of Labor and Industry.  (b) Violation.--A contract executed in violation of subsection (a) is null and void.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1411 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 14 - Contracts|Section 1411 - (Reserved)

§ 1411. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1501 - Exercise of eminent domain

§ 1501. Exercise of eminent domain.  A borough may enter upon, appropriate, injure or destroy private lands, property or material, or lands previously granted or dedicated to public use that are no longer used for the purpose for which the lands were granted, according to the proceedings set forth in 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain), for any of the following purposes: (1) The laying out, opening, widening, extending, vacating, grading or changing the grades or lines of streets.  (2) The construction of bridges and the piers and abutments for bridges. (3) The construction of slopes, embankments and sewers. (4) The erection and extension of water systems, wharves and docks, public buildings, public auditoriums, memorials, monuments, public works, filtration plants, sewerage systems, sewage treatment works, refuse disposal or incineration plants, sanitary landfills, gas plants, electric plants and libraries. (5) The establishing of parks, playgrounds and recreation places and the changing of watercourses. (6) For all other purposes authorized by this part.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1502 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1502 - Restrictions as to certain property

§ 1502. Restrictions as to certain property.   (a) Historically significant property.--In addition to a restriction made by another provision of this part in a particular case, no borough may exercise the right of eminent domain against: (1) land now occupied by a building that was used during the Colonial or Revolutionary period as a place of assembly by the Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the Congress of the United States; (2) the land occupied by a fort, redoubt or blockhouse erected during the Colonial or Revolutionary period or a building used as headquarters by the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; or (3) the site of a building, fort, redoubt, blockhouse, or headquarters that is preserved for its historic associations and not for private profit.  (a.1) Colonial or Revolutionary period.--For the purposes of subsection (a), the Colonial and Revolutionary period terminates on September 3, 1783.  (b) Prohibition.--No land or property used for a cemetery, burying ground or place of public worship may be taken or appropriated by virtue of a power contained in this chapter.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1502.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1502.1 - Declaration of intention

§ 1502.1. Declaration of intention.  A borough shall declare its intention to acquire, enter upon, take, use and appropriate any private property or land for any of the purposes authorized by this chapter through a duly enacted ordinance.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1503 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1503 - Application of 26 Pa.C.S

§ 1503. Application of 26 Pa.C.S.  Eminent domain proceedings must conform to the provisions of 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain), including, but not limited to, payment of damages and costs.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1561 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1561 - Right to damages given in certain cases

§ 1561. Right to damages given in certain cases.  The right to damages against a borough is given to an owner or tenant of land, property or material, abutting on or through which pass streets, injured by the vacating of the streets or the vacation of bridges and piers, abutments and approaches.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1562 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1562 - (Reserved)

§ 1562. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1563 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1563 - (Reserved)

§ 1563. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1564 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1564 - (Reserved)

§ 1564. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1565 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain, Assessment of Damages and Damages for Injury to Property|Section 1565 - (Reserved)

§ 1565. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1701 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1701 - Definitions

§ 1701. 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:  "Improving a street." The term includes work upon a street or portion thereof done or proposed to be done in order to open the street if the street has not previously been opened or, if previously opened, to make the street more usable or more suitable for use by the traveling public or safer for use. The term includes, but is not limited to, grading, paving, curbing and macadamizing.  "Laying out." The term includes the plotting of:  (1) An unopened street or portion of the street on a borough plan or official map adopted in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code on a subdivision or land development plan or by the enactment of an ordinance adopted in accordance with this chapter.  (2) An unopened street in a case where any of the lines of the street are proposed to be revised or in a case where the street was never previously laid out although the street may have been opened and used.  "Opened streets." The term includes the streets within the borough used as public passageways. "Opening a street." The term includes the construction and grading of a street or portion thereof and the act of physically taking possession of an area or laid-out street for the purpose of making the same usable to the traveling public.  "Person." The term includes a natural person, association, firm, corporation or political subdivision. "Personal notice." The term includes notice upon the owner of a premises either by personal service upon the owner or by certified mail to the owner at the owner's last known address. Where service has not been successfully made by either of the two methods first mentioned, it may be made by leaving the notice at or upon the premises.  "Portion." The term includes a portion either of the width or length of a street. Opening a portion of a street may mean extending or widening a street, and vacating a portion of a street may mean closing or narrowing a street.  "Street." The term includes a street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public way and public square, either for or intended for public use, and includes the cartway, sidewalk, gutter and the right-of-way area, whether or not the street or a part of the street is owned in fee by others than the borough. Streets are of two classes, opened and unopened.  "Unopened streets." The term includes the streets within the borough neither used as a public passageway nor accepted or maintained, but plotted in one of the following:  (1) a borough plan or official map adopted in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code;  (2) an ordinance laying out the street in accordance with this chapter; (3) a subdivision or land development plan; or (4) an individual deed.   Cross References. Section 1701 is referred to in section 21A01 of this title.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1702 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1702 - (Reserved)

§ 1702. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1703 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1703 - (Reserved)

§ 1703. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1704 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1704 - Streets connecting with street of other municipality

§ 1704. Streets connecting with street of other municipality.  No action may be taken under this chapter that would result in the change of location or grade or the vacation of a street or portion thereof that connects with a street of another municipality, without approval of the court of common pleas of the county in which the municipality is located, unless the municipality first files with the borough secretary its approval of the proposed action.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1705 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1705 - Entry on land to maintain marks and monuments

§ 1705. Entry on land to maintain marks and monuments.  The council, its agents and employees, may enter upon any land or property and maintain marks and monuments, so far as the council may deem necessary, in carrying out its powers and duties under this chapter.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1706 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1706 - Exclusive nature of provisions

§ 1706. Exclusive nature of provisions.  No street may be dedicated, accepted, acquired, laid out, opened or vacated by a borough except under this chapter.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1707 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1707 - Failure of council to hold hearing

§ 1707. Failure of council to hold hearing.  If, after the filing of a petition under this chapter, council fails to hold a required hearing, an aggrieved party may file a mandamus action in the court of common pleas requesting that a hearing be held.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1708 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1708 - Street lighting, ornamental lighting and traffic control signals and devices

§ 1708. Street lighting, ornamental lighting and traffic control signals and devices.  Council may provide street lights and ornamental lighting and make regulations for the protection of lighting. Council may assess the costs for the erection of lighting in accordance with Chapter 21A (relating to assessments and charges for public improvements). Council may provide for the erection, maintenance and operation of traffic control signals and devices in accordance with 75 Pa.C.S. (relating to vehicles).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1711 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1711 - (Reserved)

§ 1711. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1712 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1712 - Borough street plan

§ 1712. Borough street plan.   (a) Adoption of plan.--A borough that has not maintained an accurate plan of borough streets adopted in accordance with this part prior to July 16, 2012, may only adopt a plan of streets under the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, governing the adoption of an official map.  (b) Amendments to plan.--If a borough maintains a plan of streets adopted prior to July 16, 2012, or maintains an official map containing opened and unopened streets, a street laid out in accordance with this part by ordinance or by final approval of a subdivision or land development plan must be deemed an amendment to the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a deemed amendment as provided in this section and a subsequent placement of the street on a plan may not be subject to public notice or public hearing, if the street has been laid out in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.  (c) Prohibition.--The maintenance of a plan of streets or official map shall not be required in order for a borough to lay out streets in accordance with section 1721.2(b) (relating to laying out streets and procedure) or lay out and open a street in accordance with section 1724 (relating to effect of laying out street).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1721 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1721 - (Reserved)

§ 1721. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1721.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1721.1 - Power to lay out, open, etc

§ 1721.1. Power to lay out, open, etc.   (a) Authority of borough.--In accordance with the provisions of this chapter, boroughs may, with or without petition of abutting property owners, lay out, open, widen, straighten, alter, extend and improve, and may establish or reestablish the grades of, and keep in order and repair and in safe passable condition, a street or portion of a street within the borough limits or may vacate the street or portion of a street if deemed expedient for the public good and provide for the costs of alteration.  (b) Laying out or opening streets.--Boroughs may lay out or open: (1) a street or portion of a street as it appears upon a borough plan or an official map adopted in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code or is described in an ordinance adopted in accordance with this chapter; (2) a street or portion of a street that the borough determines to acquire by eminent domain; (3) a street to which the public has acquired rights by constant use over a period exceeding 21 years; or (4) a street or portion of a street, laid out or constructed by a person that the borough sees fit to open or accept as provided in this chapter.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1722 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1722 - (Reserved)

§ 1722. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1723 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 17 - Streets|Section 1723 - (Reserved)

§ 1723. (Reserved).