The board of commissioners of any county may appropriate moneys from the county treasury for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, maintaining and operating as a county facility a motor vehicle parking facility, or may create a municipal authority and appropriate moneys to such authority for such purpose, and the county commissioners, or the municipal authority created for such purpose, may lease to any city, borough or township wherein the parking facility is or shall be constructed, or to a parking authority created by the city, borough or township, the land to be used for a parking facility, or a parking facility, for the use, benefit, health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth.
16 P.S. § 1999f