8 Pa.C.S. § 1502
Restrictions as to certain property
Pennsylvania · Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Title 8 — BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS · Status: effective
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(a) Historically significant property.--In addition to a restriction made by another provision of this part in a particular case, no borough may exercise the right of eminent domain against:
(1) land now occupied by a building that was used during the Colonial or Revolutionary period as a place of assembly by the Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the Congress of the United States;
(2) the land occupied by a fort, redoubt or blockhouse erected during the Colonial or Revolutionary period or a building used as headquarters by the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; or
(3) the site of a building, fort, redoubt, blockhouse, or headquarters that is preserved for its historic associations and not for private profit.
(a.1) Colonial or Revolutionary period.--For the purposes of subsection (a), the Colonial and Revolutionary period terminates on September 3, 1783.
(b) Prohibition.--No land or property used for a cemetery, burying ground or place of public worship may be taken or appropriated by virtue of a power contained in this chapter.