32 P.S. § 705 Condemnation of Property

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 32 P.S. § 705

The department shall have power to acquire any lands, easements, rights-of-way, franchises and other property, deemed necessary for the construction of any of its public works or improvements provided for in this act by condemnation proceedings, and shall have power to enter upon, take possession of, and occupy such property deemed necessary for such purposes. The proceedings for the condemnation of property and for the assessment of damages shall be in accordance with the provisions of the act, approved the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred nineteen (Pamphlet Laws 976), entitled "An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings to acquire property for the Commonwealth by proceedings in eminent domain, where the purchase of such property has either been authorized by law or determined by the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings under existing laws, and an appropriation made therefor," its amendments and supplements, except that the department shall have the right to immediate possession of the ...