Twenty-one year limitation. (a) General rule.-- The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within 21 years: (1) Except as provided in section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation), an action
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Section: 5530
Jurisdiction: PA
Bluebook Citation: 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5530
§ 5530. Twenty-one year limitation. (a) General rule.-- The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within 21 years: (1) Except as provided in section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation), an action
for the possession of real property. (2) An action for the payment of any ground rent, annuity or other charge upon real property,
or any part or portion thereof. If this paragraph shall operate to bar any payment
of such a rent, annuity or charge, the rent, annuity or charge to which the payment
relates shall be extinguished and no further action may be commenced with respect
to subsequent payments. (3) (Deleted by amendment). (b) Entry upon land.-- No entry upon real property shall toll the running of the period of limitation specified
in subsection (a)(1), unless a possessory action shall be commenced therefor within
one year after entry. Such an entry and commencement of a possessory action, without
recovery therein, shall not toll the running of such period of limitation in respect
of another possessory action, unless such other possessory action is commenced within
one year after the termination of the first. (May 4, 2006, P.L.112, No.34, eff. 120 days; June 19, 2018, P.L.223, No.34, eff. one
year) 2018 Amendment. Act 34 amended subsec. (a)(1). 2006 Amendment. Act 34 deleted subsec. (a)(3). Section 6(1) of Act 34 provided that Act 34 shall apply
to all condemnations effected on or after the effective date of section 6. Section
(6)(3) of Act 34 provided that the amendment of subsec. (a)(3) shall apply only to
causes of action which accrue after the effective date of section 6. Cross References. Section 5530 is referred to in section 5527.1 of this title.
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