Pennsylvania Statutes Title 36 P.S. Highways and Bridges § 1981. Authority of courts

The courts aforesaid  1 shall, within their respective counties, have authority, upon application to them by petition, to inquire of and to change or vacate the whole or any part of any private or public road which may have been laid out by authority of law, whenever the same shall become useless, inconvenient or burthensome notwithstanding the fact that the vacation of a part of a public road results in leaving the remaining part or parts of the road with one of its termini at a point other than in a public highway or place of public resort: Provided, That the other terminus of each of the remaining parts of the road is in a public road and that each remaining part of the road is necessary for public travel or for the use of a property owner or owners located on such remaining part. The said courts shall proceed therein by views and reviews, in the manner provided for the laying out of public roads and highways.