Pennsylvania HB 624: An Act amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in public utility facilities, further providing for adjustment.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 635
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 624
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY HEFFLEY AND KENYATTA, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY,
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in public utility facilities, further
providing for adjustment.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 9501 of Title 74 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 9501. Adjustment.
(a) General rule.--The following shall apply:
(1) If, in the construction, reconstruction, widening or
relocation of a State highway, bridge or tunnel or a part of
a State highway, bridge or tunnel, it becomes necessary, in
the opinion of the Department of Transportation, to change,
alter, adjust or relocate a water line or sanitary sewer
owned and operated by a public utility, as defined in 66
Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to definitions), or infrastructure of
a local exchange telecommunications company cable television
system or provider of telecommunications services, the
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department may, with the written agreement of the public
utility or owner of the infrastructure, make the change,
alteration, adjustment or relocation as may be required as a
part of the construction, reconstruction, widening or
relocation.
(2) In addition to paragraph (1), the department may
also enter into agreements with the public utility or owner
of the infrastructure for the sharing of costs of the change,
alteration, adjustment or relocation. If, in the opinion of
the department, the costs should be shared by the department
and [a] the public utility or owner of the infrastructure and
the department is unable to agree with the public utility or
owner of the infrastructure to a division of costs, the
department may proceed with the work and petition the
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for a determination of
the costs to be borne by each party.
(b) Declaration of policy.--[A] The public utility or owner
of the infrastructure under subsection (a) shall be entitled to
a reimbursement in a similar manner as a city, borough,
incorporated town, township and municipal authority under
section 412.1 of the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L.1242, No.428),
known as the State Highway Law.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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