159 Pa. Commw. 208 - Herbert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
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3 state decisions
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Relies on Weber City Sanitation Commission v. Craft · 142 Pa. Commw. 567 - Tobin v. Radnor Township Board of Commissioners · McMahon v. City of Virginia Beach · Larrecq v. Van Orden · City of Midway v. Midway Nursing & Convalescent Center, Inc.
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“Section 1202 of [T]he Borough Code, 53 P.S. § 46202, vests enumerated specific powers in the Borough and allows it to enact ordinances to exercise those powers. In pertinent part, Section 1202 gives the Borough the specific power regarding: (6) Health and cleanliness regulations. To make such regulations as may be necessary for the health, safety, morals, general welfare and cleanliness and the beauty, convenience, comfort and safety of the borough. (39) Water supply. To provide a supply of water and to make regulations for the protection of the pipes, reservoirs and other constructions or apparatus; to prevent the waste of water so supplied, and to regulate the drilling of wells within the district. Additionally, Section 2461 of [T]he Borough Code, 53 P.S. § 47461, entitled Ordinances to require water connections, provides: [a]ny borough supplying water for'the use of the public within such borough ... may, by ordinance, require any owner of property abutting upon any street in which there is a water main constructed or acquired by the borough, to make connections with such water line, for the purpose of conducting water to such property ... These sections of [T]he Borough Code granted the Borough the authority to enact [the mandatory water connection] Ordinance which requires Herbert to connect his property with the public water system ... The statutory authority, therefore, allows a borough to require that landowners attach their property to the public water service in suc”
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