53 P.S. § 2831 Appropriation of Property By Cities For Construction of Dam

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 53 P.S. § 2831

Whenever the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been or shall be granted to any city to construct and maintain a dam, in a public navigable river or stream flowing through, or partly within and partly without its corporate limits, for the purpose of improving the sanitary conditions of such city, power is hereby conferred upon it to purchase, acquire, enter upon, take, use and appropriate private property, either within or without its territorial limits, for that purpose; and if said city cannot agree with the owner or owners, lessee or lessees, of such private property upon the compensation for the property appropriated or the damages done, or when by reason of the absence or legal incapacity of any such owner or owners, lessee or lessees, no such compensation can be agre...