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§ 670-208. Limitations on damages for taking

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 36 P.S. Highways and Bridges

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 36 P.S. Highways and Bridges
Chapter 2. State Highway Law (Refs & Annos)
Article II. Designation and Location of State Highways (Refs & Annos)
36 P.S. § 670-208
§ 670-208. Limitations on damages for taking
No person shall be entitled to recover any damages for any buildings or improvements of any kind which shall or may be placed or constructed upon or within the ultimate widths and lines of any State highway after the same shall have been established for future construction and recorded as aforesaid.
No person shall be entitled to damages by reason of such establishment of the ultimate width and lines of a State highway for future construction; and, where the Commonwealth, by its proper authorities, has improved or constructed or shall hereafter improve or construct such State highway and, in so doing, has taken or shall take a part only of the lands lying within the lines shown by such plan, damages shall be allowed for and to the extent of such actual taking only. Such taking shall be deemed to occur only when right of way plans or construction drawings, prepared by the department, showing thereon the right of way required for highway purposes and for slopes, shall have been approved by the secretary and the Governor and filed as a public record in the office of the department.

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1945, June 1, P.L. 1242, art. II, § 208.
<The State Highway Law [36 P.S. §§ 670-101 to 670-1102] is repealed insofar as inconsistent with Art. V-A of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, relating to municipal capital improvements, pursuant to 1990, Dec. 19, P.L.1343, No. 209, § 2. See 53 P.S. § 10501-A et seq.>
36 P.S. § 670-208, PA ST 36 P.S. § 670-208
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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