OF THE

LAWS AND ORDINANCES

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

OF

THE CITY OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA,

IN FORCE APRIL 2nd, 1906,

With Notes and Decisions.

Published by Authority of the Mayor and Councils
of the City of Erie.

EMBRACING ALSO THE

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Laws Applicable to Cities of the Third Class, Department Rules and
Names of Municipal Officers, of Erie, from its Incorporation
as a City, in 1851, to 1906, Inclusive.

BY THOMAS HANLON.

ERIE. PA.

DISPATCH PRINTING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY.

Received through the

Bureau for Municipal Research

CERTIFICATE.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the ordinances and parts of ordinances contained in this Digest, have been compared by me with the original or

This Edition of the Digest of the Laws, Ordinances and Rules of the City of Erie, was compiled, printed and published in pursuance, to ordinances of the City of Erie, No. 2343, approved March 30, 1904, and No. 2503, approved March 31, 1905; Resolutions of the Select and Common Councils of said City, approved August 5, 1905, and September 25, 1905, and of contract with the Dispatch Printing and Engraving Co., dated December 8, 1905.

Part one, containing, "A Digest of the General Acts of Assembly of Pennsylvania, for the incorporation and government of Cities of the Third Class," third edition, (including "Table of Cases Cited,") by Louis Richards, Esq., of Reading, Pa., was purchased from, and is inserted by permission of Messers Soney & Sage, of Newark, N. J., by whom it is copyrighted.

The volume contains the laws especially applicable to Cities of the Third Class, Special Acts of Assembly, relating to Erie, Constitutional provisions, general laws of the Commonwealth and Acts of Congress of Municipal or local application; general ordinances, special ordinances of general interest, and department rules of the City of Erie, in force April 2, 1906; the subjects appearing in alphabetical order, also the names and terms of office of all the Burgesses and Mayors of the Borough and City, and of the Councilmen and City Officers from 1851 to 1906, inclusive, in chronological order.

This

Special ordinances having a continuing force are inserted. class embraces a feature not usually found in City Digests, viz: ordinances for opening, vacating, widening, narrowing and straightening of streets arranged in geographical order, commencing at the north and east sides of the City; and a list of street grades, established by ordinances, arranged also in geographical order and with references to the records. Streets opened by dedication of land therefor by adjoining property owners, or by legislation other than ordinances, are described in the foot notes.

Ordinances relating to passing affairs, such as the following are entirely excluded, viz:

Ordinances for sewering, paving and curbing particular streets; levying regular taxes; making and transferring appropriations of revenues; issuing bonds; submitting to popular vote questions of proposed increase of indebtedness; purchase and sale of real estate.

Those ordinances being either local or transitory in their appli

cation, active interest therein ceased with the consummation of the purposes which prompted their passage. Any person interested in an ordinance of this class can find it in the records of the City Clerk's office.

The head and marginal notes contain a synopsis of the text. the foot notes will be found citations of judicial decisions, cross-references and historical data.

Where part of the text is supplied or altered by subsequent legislation, such fact is set forth in the foot notes. The word "note" in the index means foot note.

The original numbers of the ordinances, and of the sections and dates of approval of both laws and ordinances, are given in the margins, followed by references to the pamphlet laws of the Commonwealth or ordinance books of the City, thus: "Ord. 1367, June 18, 1897, Sec. 1, H. 26," printed on the margin of page 421, means: Section 1st, of ordinance of the City of Erie, No. 1367, approved June 18th, 1897, recorded in the City Clerk's office in Ordinance Book H, page 26.

The titles, enacting clauses and all extraneous matter, are excluded. The repealing clauses are generally omitted, except when so worded as to convey a meaning different from the ordinary.

Words and letters added by the compiler to complete the sense, are enclosed in brackets.

Copious and comprehensive alphabetical indexes, with references both to pages and sections, are a feature of the work. The index to the Acts and Decisions, relating to Cities of the Third Class, commences at Page 260, of Part 1. The index to the remainder of the work will be found at the end of the volume. Attention is directed to the ready reference to the indexes on the inside of the cover; also to the contents, list of abbreviations, Latin phrases, etc., following this preface.

Aside from its general purpose, the work is designed for the use of the Councilmen, Municipal Officers and Department Employees, as well as the legal profession, as an aid to intelligent direction in the proper discharge of their duties, by bringing together, the various laws, ordinances and rules on every subject contained in the municipal code, and embracing the particular powers and duties of each official separately.

ERIE, PA., Dec. 15, 1906.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Note There are two sets of pages in this Digest, one set for Part I, and another
for the remainder of the book.