53 P.S. § 57408 Manner of Assessment

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-21
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 53 P.S. § 57408

The charge for any such sewer system construction in any township shall be assessed upon the properties benefited, improved or accommodated in either of the following methods:

(a) By an assessment, pursuant to township ordinance, against each lot or piece of land benefited, improved or accommodated by the sewer system according to the foot-front rule, allowing such reduction in the case of corner properties and unusually shaped properties or those properties benefited, improved or accommodated by more than one sanitary sewer as the ordinance may specify; the ordinance may provide for equitable assessments or adjustments when special conditions exist where an assessment for the full frontage would be unjust. The secretary of the township shall cause thirty days' notice of the assessment to be given to each party assessed, either by service on the owner or his agent, or left on the assessed premises. However, when the lot or piece of land is on a corner it shall be assessed for its entire frontage abutting on any sewer except when such property is a vacant lot or contains only a single family dwelling in which case it shall be assessed along the shorter frontage and assessed along the longer frontage abutting on a sewer, commencing at a point no closer to the corner than one hundred twenty-five feet. When a township shall have determined to assess properties in proportion to frontage, any property benefited, improved or accommodated by the sanitary sewer which shall not be lawfully subject to such manner of assessment or as to which such manner of assessment shall not reasonably measure the benefit to such property, shall be assess...