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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 11105. Legal effect

Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) Where municipalities have adopted a county plan or a multimunicipal plan is adopted under this article and the participating municipalities have conformed their local plans and ordinances to the county or multimunicipal plan by implementing cooperative agreements and adopting appropriate resolutions and ordinances, the following shall apply:

(1) Sections 916.1 and 1006-A.  1

(2) State agencies shall consider and may rely upon comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances when reviewing applications for the funding or permitting of infrastructure or facilities.

(3) State agencies shall consider and may give priority consideration to applications for financial or technical assistance for projects consistent with the county or multimunicipal plan.

(b) Participating municipalities that have entered into implementation agreements to carry out a county or multimunicipal plan as described in this article shall have the following additional powers:

(1) To provide by cooperative agreement for the sharing of tax revenues and fees by municipalities within the region of the plan.

(2) To adopt a transfer of development rights program by adoption of an ordinance applicable to the region of the plan so as to enable development rights to be transferred from rural resource areas in any municipality within the plan to designated growth areas in any municipality within the plan.

(c) Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize a municipality to regulate the allocation or withdrawal of water resources by a municipal authority or water company that is otherwise regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or other Federal or State agencies or statutes.

(d) Except as provided in section 619.2,  2 nothing in this article shall be construed as limiting the authority of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission over the implementation, location, construction and maintenance of public utility facilities and the rendering of public utility services to the public.

1 53 P.S. §§ 10916.1 and 11006-A.
2 53 P.S. § 10619.2.
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