58 Pa. Stat. § 601.507

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32
Section 601.507 - Existing rights and remedies preserved; cumulative remedies authorized

Nothing in this act shall be construed as estopping the Commonwealth or any district attorney from proceeding in courts of law or equity to abate pollution forbidden under this act or abate nuisances under existing law. It is hereby declared to be the purposes of this act to provide additional and cumulative remedies to control activities related to drilling for or production of oil and gas within the Commonwealth, and nothing contained in this act shall in any way abridge or alter rights of action or remedies now or hereafter existing in equity or under the common law or statutory law, criminal or civil, nor shall any provision in this act, or the granting of any permit under this act, or any act done by virtue of this act, be construed as estopping the Commonwealth, in the exercise of its rights under the common law or decisional law or in equity, from proceeding in courts of law or equity to suppress nuisances or to abate any pollution now or hereafter existing or to enforce common law or statutory rights. No courts of this Commonwealth having jurisdiction to abate public or private nuisances shall be deprived of such jurisdiction in any action to abate any private or public nuisance instituted by any person for the reasons that such nuisance constitutes air or water pollution.

58 P.S. § 601.507

1984, Dec. 19, P.L. 1140, No. 223, § 507, effective in 120 days.