The Township Supervisors may construct sidewalks
or curbs or suitable material along the roads or highways in the Township
of Patton pursuant to this chapter authorizing said construction.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Except in such instances when petitions are
presented to the Board of Supervisors, signed by owners of property,
representing a majority in number of feet the front of the properties
abutting on roads or highways, all such sidewalks and sidewalks and
curbs are to be constructed in accordance with the Second Class Township
Code, Article XXIV, Section 2401, 53 P.S. § 67401.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The cost of said sidewalks or curbs, or sidewalks
and curbs shall be paid by the abutting property owners in proportion
to their frontage, but in no instance shall any abutting property
owner be liable for the construction of such sidewalks in an amount
greater than 10%, nor for the construction of such curbing in an amount
greater than 10% of the assessed valuation of the abutting property
owned by them, in accordance with the Second Class Township Code,
Article XXIV, Section 2401, 53 P.S. § 67401. Any expense
above such maximum liability of the abutting property owners shall
be paid by the Township of Patton.
If any owner or owners of property against which
an assessment shall have been made shall refuse or neglect to pay
such an assessment within 60 days after service of the assessment
bill has been made, the Supervisors of Patton Township, within the
time permitted by law, shall file a municipal claim or lien therefor,
together with interest at the rate of 6% per annum for the date of
completion of the improvement contemplated. All unpaid assessments
shall be certified to the Solicitor and said Solicitor shall file
municipal claims or liens therefor in the proper office of Centre
County, Pennsylvania, as provided by law against the property or shall
have been charged. Such Solicitor thereupon shall proceed to collect
all assessments under general laws relating to the collection of municipal
liens in accordance with the Act of 1947, July 10, P.L. 1481, Section
17, as amended.