Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 5608. Appointment of viewers

(a) In case the board of commissioners or a majority of them and the parties interested in the land, property or material appropriated, injured or destroyed by the county fail to agree upon the compensation to be made for the land, property or material so taken, injured or destroyed, upon petition of such commissioners or a majority of them or any person or parties interested and whose land, property or material is affected thereby to the court of common pleas of said county, the said court shall appoint three viewers from the county board of viewers, and appoint a time, not less than twenty nor more than thirty days thereafter, when said viewers shall meet and view the land, property or material to be so appropriated, injured or destroyed.

(b) The said viewers shall give at least ten days' notice, by publication in one newspaper of general circulation in the county once and in accord with the provisions of section one hundred and ten of this act,  1 of the time and place of their first meeting, and shall also give notice thereof by handbills posted in conspicuous places in the vicinity of the said proposed public improvement.

(c) All the viewers shall act unless prevented by sickness or other unavoidable cause, but a majority of the viewers may hear, determine, pass upon and report all matters relating to the view for which they were appointed.