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

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
 1   Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in public utility facilities, further
 3      providing for adjustment.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Section 9501 of Title 74 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 8   § 9501.    Adjustment.
 9      (a)    General rule.--The following shall apply:
10             (1)   If, in the construction, reconstruction, widening or
11      relocation of a State highway, bridge or tunnel or a part of
12      a State highway, bridge or tunnel, it becomes necessary, in
13      the opinion of the Department of Transportation, to change,
14      alter, adjust or relocate a water line or sanitary sewer
15      owned and operated by a public utility, as defined in 66
16      Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to definitions), or infrastructure of
17      a local exchange telecommunications company cable television
18      system or provider of telecommunications services, the
 1      department may, with the written agreement of the public
 2      utility or owner of the infrastructure, make the change,
 3      alteration, adjustment or relocation as may be required as a
 4      part of the construction, reconstruction, widening or
 5      relocation.
 6            (2)   In addition to paragraph (1), the department may
 7      also enter into agreements with the public utility or owner
 8      of the infrastructure for the sharing of costs of the change,
 9      alteration, adjustment or relocation. If, in the opinion of
10      the department, the costs should be shared by the department
11      and [a] the public utility or owner of the infrastructure and
12      the department is unable to agree with the public utility or
13      owner of the infrastructure to a division of costs, the
14      department may proceed with the work and petition the
15      Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for a determination of
16      the costs to be borne by each party.
17      (b)   Declaration of policy.--[A] The public utility or owner
18   of the infrastructure under subsection (a) shall be entitled to
19   a reimbursement in a similar manner as a city, borough,
20   incorporated town, township and municipal authority under
21   section 412.1 of the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L.1242, No.428),
22   known as the State Highway Law.
23      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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