{"id":93648,"date":"2026-01-22T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:39:08","slug":"chester-lacks-sole-power-over-water-pennsylvania-justices-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93648\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Lacks Sole Power Over Water, Pennsylvania Justices Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the city of Chester, Pa. can\u2019t unilaterally control the city\u2019s water authority, reversing a lower court\u2019s decision and making it harder for the city to exit bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 amendment to the state\u2019s Municipality Authorities Act\u2014which restructured the Chester Water Authority\u2019s board to give Chester County and Delaware County representation alongside the city\u2014stripped the city of exclusive powers, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The city \u201cno longer possesses the unilateral power to acquire CWA\u2019s projects under Section 5622(a),\u201d Justice Christine Donohue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/SUPREME\/out\/J-42H-2025mo%20-%20106650217343967496.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIn order to acquire CWA\u2019s projects, City, Chester County and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the city of Chester, Pa. can\u2019t unilaterally control the city\u2019s water authority,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46048,46049,46050,28,30,29,20379,46051],"class_list":["post-93648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-debtor-asset-sales","tag-filing-of-bankruptcy-plan","tag-mediation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-utilities","tag-underfunded-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}