PRINTER'S NO. 2294
No. 1785 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY JOHNSON, OCTOBER 16, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 16, 1985
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
2 with the approval of the Governor and the Department of
3 Environmental Resources, to convey a tract of land and a
4 right-of-way in Noyes Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the
8 approval of the Governor and the Department of Environmental
9 Resources, is hereby authorized and directed, on behalf of the
10 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to grant and convey to Ellis E.
11 Rhodes and Thomas E. Rhodes, both of Altoona, Pennsylvania, the
12 following tract of land situate in Noyes Township, Clinton
13 County, Pennsylvania, together with a right-of-way for access
14 thereto, which tract and right-of-way are bounded and described
15 as follows:
16 All that certain parcel of land situate in Noyes Township,
17 Clinton County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
18 That portion of the abandoned Beech Creek Extension Railroad
1 right-of-way, said right-of-way being 100 feet in width and
2 extending in a general northwesterly direction, more or less,
3 parallel to the Susquehanna River and approximately 15 rods
4 south of the north line of a parcel previously conveyed to Ellis
5 E. Rhodes, et ux., by the Commonwealth by deed dated March 13,
6 1959, and recorded in Clinton County Deed Book 189, Page 411.
7 Said parcel contains one acre 88 perches and is the exception in
8 the deed out of the 14 acres 136 perches tract conveyed by the
9 Commonwealth to Ellis Rhodes, et ux., in the above referred to
10 deed.
11 The purpose of this conveyance is to convey any interest the
12 Commonwealth may have in said parcel to Ellis E. Rhodes and
13 Thomas E. Rhodes.
14 The Commonwealth further grants and conveys to Ellis E.
15 Rhodes and Thomas E. Rhodes, their heirs and assigns, the right
16 of ingress, egress and regress to the above described parcel
17 over the lands of the Commonwealth. Said right-of-way is of
18 vehicular size running approximately parallel to the Susquehanna
19 River. This right-of-way shall traverse lands owned by the
20 Commonwealth and described in deeds recorded in Clinton County
21 Deed Book 72, Page 39, and Deed Book 242, Page 267.
22 Section 2. The conveyance shall be made under and subject to
23 all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including, but
24 not confined to streets, roadways and rights of any telephone,
25 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
26 well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies
27 vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for
28 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
29 Section 3. The deed of conveyance shall be approved as
30 provided by law and shall be executed by the secretary of
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1 General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
2 Pennsylvania.
3 Section 4. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance
4 shall be borne by the grantee.
5 Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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