Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 14106. Taking without agreement on compensation

Whenever such city and the parties affected do not agree upon the amount of compensation or damages or benefits due for the entering, taking, using, and appropriating of such property under ordinances of council passed pursuant to the authority conferred by this act, or by reason of the absence or legal incapacity of the owner thereof no such agreement can be made, the city may enter upon, take, use, possess, improve, and appropriate such lands for any of the aforesaid purposes without any other or further acts or proceedings now required by law, and the property of the city shall be pledged for the payment of any damages that may thereafter be awarded.