Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 15203. Preemption

(a) Grant of preemptive power to State agency.--A State agency may pursue its purposes and exercise its powers and authority, including, without limitation, the acquisition, design, development, construction, improvement, furnishing, fixturing, equipping, operation, extension, enlargement, maintenance, repair, lease, sublease or use of real property, notwithstanding any provision of law providing for or regulating zoning or land-use planning in a city of the first class, or any zoning ordinance or land-use ordinance adopted or enacted by a city of the first class under the authority of any statute or under the authority of any home rule charter authorized and adopted under any statute or the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

(b) Exercise of preemptive power by Commonwealth and administrative agencies.--The Commonwealth and any of its administrative agencies designated in the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No. 175),  1 known as The Administrative Code of 1929, may exercise the same preemptive power and authority exercisable by a State agency under subsection (a) so long as the real property is to be used, occupied or under the control of a State-related university, whether by agreement, lease or otherwise.