Pennsylvania § 503 Compensation, assistants and expenses

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 503 — Compensation, assistants and expenses

Pennsylvania § 503

Title 16COUNTIES

PartPART I

Ch. 5FIXING AND RELOCATING LINES AND BOUNDARIES

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16 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 503 (2026).

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(a)Compensation.--The surveyors or professional engineers composing the boundary commission under section 502 (relating to Commonwealth Court designation of neutral court and appointment of commission) shall each receive compensation fixed by the court for the time necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties and shall be reimbursed the necessary expenses incurred while engaged with the work of the commission.

(b)Assistants.--The boundary commission may employ assistants as the court allows, at compensation fixed by the court. An assistant shall be reimbursed for actual necessary expenses incurred while employed by the commission.

(c)Expenses.--Each cost, including the necessary expenses of advertising the meeting of the boundary commission under this chapter, and in procuring and

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(a) Compensation.--The surveyors or professional engineers composing the boundary commission under section 502 (relating to Commonwealth Court designation of neutral court and appointment of commission) shall each receive compensation fixed by the court for the time necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties and shall be reimbursed the necessary expenses incurred while engaged with the work of the commission.

(b) Assistants.--The boundary commission may employ assistants as the court allows, at compensation fixed by the court. An assistant shall be reimbursed for actual necessary expenses incurred while employed by the commission.

(c) Expenses.--Each cost, including the necessary expenses of advertising the meeting of the boundary commission under this chapter, and in procuring and setting the permanent monuments necessary to mark the county line, the expenses of the boundary commission and the commission's assistants and each other expense necessarily incurred shall be paid by the interested counties jointly, in equal parts, or by each party to the proceeding as directed by the court, upon presentation of properly itemized bills, duly verified by affidavit of the person claiming payment or someone on the person's behalf.