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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 53. MUNICIPAL AND QUASI-MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
PART V. CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
CHAPTER 81. THIRD CLASS CITY CODE
ARTICLE XXXVI. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS
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08/31/2009
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NOTICE: As to repeal of this section where inconsistent with Act 1990, Dec. 19, P.L. 1343, No. 209, see § 2 of said act.
§ 38601. Hospitals, jails, poor farms, et cetera
Each city may, by ordinance, erect, purchase, establish or maintain hospitals, jails, workhouses, or houses of correction for juvenile or other offenders, and prescribe regulations for the government thereof; and erect all public buildings necessary for the use of the city, or of any department thereof; purchase, take, use, or occupy, private lands upon which to erect any of the said buildings; purchase, take, use, or occupy, within or without the limits of the respective city, whether within the county wherein is located the city, or within a county adjacent thereto, or within both, private lands and buildings; establish and maintain a general hospital, or hospitals, for the cure and treatment of the sick and injured, or a hospital or hospitals for the treatment and separation of persons suffering with contagious or infectious diseases, and prescribe rules and regulations for the government, management, and maintenance thereof; purchase, take, use, or occupy, within the limits of the county of such city or within a county adjacent thereto, or within both, private lands upon which to establish and maintain a poor farm, with all necessary and convenient buildings and appliances, where the city may support and maintain such poor persons as such city is by law required to support and maintain; acquire, by purchase, or in other lawful manners, within or without the city, but within the county or counties in which the city is located, sufficient real estate for present and future use upon which to erect workhouses or houses of detention, poor houses, garbage and incinerating furnaces. The proceedings for the assessment of damages for any property taken, occupied or used for any such purpose shall be the same as provided in this act for property taken, injured or destroyed.
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