Pennsylvania § 16902 Establishing county roads

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 16902 — Establishing county roads

Pennsylvania § 16902

JurisdictionPennsylvania

Title 16COUNTIES

PartPART IV

Ch. 169ROADS

Subch.AUTHORIZATION, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

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16 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 16902 (2026).

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(a)Powers of the county commissioners.--For the purpose of providing public roads, specially constructed, improved and maintained, the county commissioners may:

(1)Lay and open a road.

(2)Take possession of and exercise control over an existing municipal road or part of a municipal road, or any road decreed by a court to be a county road.

(3)Build and maintain roads as county roads within the county limits.

(4)Straighten, widen, extend and alter any county road or part of the road laid out, opened or acquired and vacate as much as may become unnecessary and useless.

(b)Control of road by commissioners.--Any road taken over or improved shall become a county road and be subject to the control and supervision of the county commissioners. The county shall keep and maintain county ro

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(a) Powers of the county commissioners.--For the purpose of providing public roads, specially constructed, improved and maintained, the county commissioners may:

(1) Lay and open a road.

(2) Take possession of and exercise control over an existing municipal road or part of a municipal road, or any road decreed by a court to be a county road.

(3) Build and maintain roads as county roads within the county limits.

(4) Straighten, widen, extend and alter any county road or part of the road laid out, opened or acquired and vacate as much as may become unnecessary and useless.

(b) Control of road by commissioners.--Any road taken over or improved shall become a county road and be subject to the control and supervision of the county commissioners. The county shall keep and maintain county roads established under this part and all other county roads in repair, the expense thereof to be paid by the county in the manner provided under this part.