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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 Pa.C.S.A. Counties § 16902. Establishing county roads

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Powers of the county commissioners.--For the purpose of providing public roads, specially constructed, improved and maintained, the county commissioners may:

(1) Lay and open a road.

(2) Take possession of and exercise control over an existing municipal road or part of a municipal road, or any road decreed by a court to be a county road.

(3) Build and maintain roads as county roads within the county limits.

(4) Straighten, widen, extend and alter any county road or part of the road laid out, opened or acquired and vacate as much as may become unnecessary and useless.

(b) Control of road by commissioners.--Any road taken over or improved shall become a county road and be subject to the control and supervision of the county commissioners. The county shall keep and maintain county roads established under this part and all other county roads in repair, the expense thereof to be paid by the county in the manner provided under this part.

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