Pennsylvania § 16921 Improvement of municipal roads

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 16921 — Improvement of municipal roads

Pennsylvania § 16921

JurisdictionPennsylvania

Title 16COUNTIES

PartPART IV

Ch. 169ROADS

Subch.AUTHORIZATION, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

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16 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 16921 (2026).

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(a)General rule.--If a system of main thoroughfares had been adopted or if the adoption is being contemplated within two years after the commencement of the improvement, the county commissioners may take exclusive control of and improve any road or section of road located either wholly or in part in any municipal corporation, whether existing by the municipal corporation's authority or laid out in whole or in part by virtue of this act or otherwise.

(b)Necessary power.--For the purposes of subsection (a), the county commissioners may originally locate, lay out, establish in whole or in part, relocate, straighten, widen, extend, alter, open, construct and improve roads or vacate as much of a road rendered unnecessary and useless.

(c)Maintenance.--A road established, altered, constructe

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(a) General rule.--If a system of main thoroughfares had been adopted or if the adoption is being contemplated within two years after the commencement of the improvement, the county commissioners may take exclusive control of and improve any road or section of road located either wholly or in part in any municipal corporation, whether existing by the municipal corporation's authority or laid out in whole or in part by virtue of this act or otherwise.

(b) Necessary power.--For the purposes of subsection (a), the county commissioners may originally locate, lay out, establish in whole or in part, relocate, straighten, widen, extend, alter, open, construct and improve roads or vacate as much of a road rendered unnecessary and useless.

(c) Maintenance.--A road established, altered, constructed and improved under this section shall, by ordinance enacted by each municipal corporation through which the road shall pass, become a municipal road, and each respective municipal corporation through or into which the road extends shall maintain and keep the road.