Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 7108. Exemptions

All real estate, by whomsoever owned and for whatsoever purpose used, other than property owned by the State or the United States, shall be subject to all tax and municipal claims herein provided for, except that all property owned by any county, city, or other municipality or municipal division, and actual places of religious worship, places of burial not held or used for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity, shall not be subject to tax or municipal claims on property, by law, exempt from taxation except for the removal of nuisances, for sewer claims and sewer connections, or for the curbing, recurbing, paving, repaving, or repairing the footways in front thereof.  All other real estate, by whomsoever owned and for whatsoever purpose used, shall be subject to all tax claims and municipal claims herein provided for:  Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall hinder or prevent any municipality from providing that any municipal work may be done at the expense of the public generally, and be paid out of the general funds of the municipality.