Coatesville Borough v. Coatesville Electric Light, Heat & Power Co.

Citations

• 32 Pa. Super. 513
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 44

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Boroughs—Police power — Contract.</p> <p>A municipality cannot bargain away its right to exercise at all times its police power; nor enter into any contract by which the free exercise of the police power which is delegated to it by the state, can be abridged, limited or destroyed.</p> <p>A borough cannot, in granting to an electric light company the right to erect poles and wires in the streets, deprive itself of the right thereafter to impose a license tax upon the company for such poles and wires, under its police powers.</p>