72 Pa. Stat. § 6161

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 6161 - Determination of reasonableness of tax on utility corporations; petition

Whenever, hereafter, any dispute shall arise between any township, city, borough, or other municipal corporation of this State, having authority under the law to charge a license fee against any telegraph, telephone, light, power, street passenger railway, motor traction, gas, or water company, occupying the highways of such municipality with its poles, wires, conduits, or cables, as to whether or not the amount of license fee, named in any ordinance of said municipal corporation, for the inspection and regulation of the said poles, wires, conduits, or cables, under its police power, is or is not reasonable, either party may apply, by petition, to the court of common pleas of the county where said municipal corporation is situated, to determine the said dispute.

72 P.S. § 6161

1905, April 17, P.L. 183, § 1. As amended 1913, July 26, P.L. 1371, § 1.