Pennsylvania § 16957 Municipal streets as terminus of county road

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 16957 — Municipal streets as terminus of county road

Pennsylvania § 16957

JurisdictionPennsylvania

Title 16COUNTIES

PartPART IV

Ch. 169ROADS

Subch.COUNTY AID TO MUNICIPALITIES AND TOWNSHIPS

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Bluebook

16 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 16957 (2026).

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(a)Contract for improvements.--If a county road terminates at the corporate limits of a city or borough in the same county or in another county and connects with a municipal street which the municipal corporation has failed to properly improve, and the county commissioners in which the municipal corporation is located deem the improvement of the municipal street necessary to make the county road easily accessible to residents or to the traveling public, the county commissioners may contract with the governing body of the municipal corporation to improve municipal streets, including streets connecting a county road with the business districts of the municipal corporation or with a system of improved streets in the municipal corporation or which connect the road with another county road ter

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(a) Contract for improvements.--If a county road terminates at the corporate limits of a city or borough in the same county or in another county and connects with a municipal street which the municipal corporation has failed to properly improve, and the county commissioners in which the municipal corporation is located deem the improvement of the municipal street necessary to make the county road easily accessible to residents or to the traveling public, the county commissioners may contract with the governing body of the municipal corporation to improve municipal streets, including streets connecting a county road with the business districts of the municipal corporation or with a system of improved streets in the municipal corporation or which connect the road with another county road terminating at the limits of the municipal corporation.

(b) Contract to connect roads.--The county commissioners may enter into a similar contract as subsection (a) with one or more municipal governing bodies if:

(1) several municipal corporations are contiguous to each other;

(2) a county road terminates at the corporate limits of any of the municipal corporations;

(3) one or more of the municipal corporations have failed to properly improve a municipal street therein; and

(4) the county commissioners deem the improvement of the street necessary in order to make the county road easily accessible to residents or to the traveling public.