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§ 23147. To set aside portions of parks as sites for certain institutions or schools

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations
Part III. Cities of the Second Class
Chapter 54. Municipal Powers in General (Refs & Annos)
53 P.S. § 23147
§ 23147. To set aside portions of parks as sites for certain institutions or schools
Whenever any city of the second class of this commonwealth shall hereafter acquire, by purchase, donation, condemnation or otherwise, any real estate for public park purposes, such city is hereby authorized and empowered to set aside such part or parts of said real estate as it may elect so to set aside, for a building site or sites for technological schools, or1 institutions for the promotion of arts and sciences, and to permit the use of such site or sites for the purpose of establishing and maintaining thereon such schools and institutions: Provided, however, That no school or institution shall be placed on any plot of ground acquired for public park purposes, which does not exceed five acres in area, unless it immediately adjoins and forms part of a larger tract of ground used for public park purposes: And provided also, That this act shall not be construed so as to permit the establishment or maintenance, in a public park, of any school or institution in which such city shall not have a voice in the management.

Credits

1903, April 23, P.L. 266, § 1.

Footnotes

So in original bill, Pamphlet Laws use “of.”
53 P.S. § 23147, PA ST 53 P.S. § 23147
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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