36 P.S. § 670-210 Relocation, Etc.; Abandonment As State Highway; Vacation

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-21
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 36 P.S. § 670-210

The secretary is hereby empowered to change, alter, or establish the width, lines, location, or grades of any State highway or any intersecting road in any township, borough, or incorporated town, in such manner as, in his discretion, may seem best, in order to correct danger or inconvenience to the traveling public, or lessen the cost to the Commonwealth in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance thereof. After the relocation has been opened to traffic, the secretary, by notice to the local authorities, shall abandon as a State highway route or vacate the section of highway between the termini of the relocation. Where the new route, in the judgment of the secretary, supplies and takes the place of any part of the old highway, and such part is of a length of not more than two miles, the secretary, being of the opinion that such part is unnecessary for public use and travel, or burdensome or dangerous, and, having due regard for the convenience of access to the new highway by the owners of property abutting on such part, may, at any time, by written order, declare such part to be vacated. Thereafter the part so vacated shall be closed to public use and travel, and shall no longer be a public road. Before any change or order of vacation is made, the secretary shall first submit a plan of the p...