Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 70051. Rewards for road and bridge construction; apportionment

The Commonwealth offers rewards, as hereinafter provided, for the construction and improvement of township roads and the erection and construction of township bridges in townships of the second class.

All moneys appropriated by the General Assembly from time to time for the payment of rewards to townships of the second class for the construction and improvement of roads and the erection and construction of bridges, as in this act provided for, shall be apportioned by the State Highway Department  1 among the several counties of this Commonwealth in proportion to the number of miles of township road located in townships of the second class.

Of the amount apportioned to the several counties for road and bridge improvements in townships of the second class under the provisions of this act, not more than fifteen per centum of such appropriation shall be available in any one township in any such county. In case any excess in the amount set aside for use in the county remains after all applications from the several townships in the county have been considered, the township commissioner  2 of the State Highway Department shall apportion the excess amount among the townships that have applications on file for State reward for more than fifteen per centum. Should there be not enough applications from all the townships in a county, filed on or before May first of the year next succeeding the appropriation, to exhaust the apportionment of the State reward fund made to a county, then such excess shall be apportioned to the counties where the applications of the townships call for the expenditure of a sum greater than the amount originally apportioned to said county.

Application for rewards for the construction and improvement of township roads, and for the erection and construction of township bridges, shall be made by the township supervisors of townships of the second class, on or before May first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and annually thereafter, to the State Highway Department, on blanks furnished by the department, which applications shall be considered by the department by counties in their order of filing.