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The right to damages against cities, counties, boroughs, or townships, within this Commonwealth, is hereby given to all owners or tenants of lands, property, or material abutting on, or through which pass, roads, streets, lanes, or alleys, injured by the laying out, opening, widening, vacating, extending or grading of said roads, streets, lanes or alleys, or the changing of grades or lines thereof, by said cities, counties, boroughs or townships; the construction and the vacating by said cities, counties, boroughs or townships of bridges, and the piers, abutments, approaches, embankments, slopes, or causeways therefor, or leading thereto; and the construction of sewers by said cities, counties, boroughs, or townships in, over, upon, along, or through said lands, property, or material.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 1097. Right to damages against municipalities for improvements - last updated January 01, 2026 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-53-ps-municipal-and-quasimunicipal-corporations/pa-st-sect-53-1097/
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