Millvale Borough

Citations

• 162 Pa. 374
• 29 A. 641
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 990

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Water companies.</p> <p>Where there is no restriction placed upon the right of a municipality to erect waterworks in the future, the right of the municipality is entirely independent of the right of private corporations to erect similar works, and it is no bar to such municipal right that such erection will injure private franchises of the same character.</p> <p>Municipal debt — Taxation—Acts of March 12, 1873, April 12, 1874.</p> <p>The constitution of 1874 and the subsequent legislation confer additional power to increase municipal indebtedness and to levy additional taxation, without any necessity for repealing pre-existing limitations of the tax rate for ordinary municipal purposes.</p> <p>Municipalities — Ordinances—Ratification.</p> <p>A municipal corporation may ratify the unauthorized acts and contracts of its officers or agents which are within the corporate powers, by ordinance subsequently passed.</p>