(a) General rule.-- A petition may be presented to the board of commissioners for the opening, widening, straightening, extending, altering, improving, relocating, vacating or establishing or reestablishing the grade of a street. (b) Requirements.-- A petition made under this section must be: (1) Signed by a majority, in number and interest, of the owners of property abutting on the line of the proposed improvement or vacation as fixed at the time of presentation of the petition. (2) Verified by affidavit of one or more of the petitioners. (3) Accompanied by payment of reasonable and necessary fees established by resolution in a form acceptable to the township. Fees may include the reasonable and necessary costs and expenses anticipated to be incurred by the township in responding to the petition, including advertising, engineering, hearing, legal and similar costs. (c) Multiple owners.-- The majority in interest of owners of undivided interests in a piece of property shall be deemed as one person for the purposes of the petition.
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