Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 68303. Installment payments

(a) When any township authorizes the construction or acquisition of any sanitary sewer or system of sanitary sewers, or the improvement of any street or portion thereof, or the installation of curbing or sidewalks, or a water supply or water systems, and all or part of the cost is assessed against the properties benefited, improved or accommodated by the sewer or system of sewers, or curbing or sidewalks, or water supply, or abutting upon the street or portion thereof, the board of supervisors may authorize the payment of the assessment in equal annual or more frequent installments.  The ordinance shall specify the length of time over which the installments may be extended and whether payments are to be made by annual or more frequent installments.  Installments shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six percent or a higher amount equal to the amount of interest on the indebtedness, if any, commencing at the time established by ordinance.  If bonds have been issued and sold to provide for the payment of any street improvement, the assessments shall not be payable beyond the term for which the bonds are issued, and the expenses for the improvements and interest thereon to the first day when interest is payable on the bonds shall be taken as the cost of the improvement to be assessed on the property benefited.

(b) Claims to secure the assessments shall be entered in the prothonotary's office of the county at the same time and in the same form and shall be collected in the same manner as municipal claims are filed and collected.

(c) Assessments are payable to the township treasurer in quarterly, semi-annual or annual installments, with interest from the date from which interest is computed on the amount of the assessments.

(d) If there is a default in the payment of any installment and interest for a period of sixty days after it becomes due, the entire assessment and accrued interest shall become due, and the township solicitor shall proceed to collect the assessment under the general laws relating to the collection of municipal claims.

(e) Any owner of property against whom any assessment is made may pay the assessment in full, at any time, with interest and costs thereon to the due date of the next installment, and that payment shall discharge the lien.