PRINTER'S NO. 2957
No. 2324 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY SERAFINI, PESCI AND THOMAS, JANUARY 27, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 27, 1992
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," exempting certain
21 conveyances of surplus Commonwealth property from certain
22 deed restrictions.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
26 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
27 section to read:
28 Section 2410-A. Exemption from Certain Land Use
1 Restrictions.--(a) A conveyance of Commonwealth property of
2 less than one hundred seventy-five acres made to a grantee for
3 the purpose of building a nursing home, where such conveyance is
4 made on or after the effective date of this section, shall be
5 free of any restriction limiting the use of that land to
6 agricultural, horticultural, forestland, livestock or open space
7 use, as defined in the act of January 19, 1968 (1967 P.L.992,
8 No.442), entitled "An act authorizing the Commonwealth of
9 Pennsylvania and the counties thereof to preserve, acquire or
10 hold land for open space uses," or the act of January 19, 1968
11 (1967 P.L.996, No.443), known as "The Land and Water
12 Conservation and Reclamation Act."
13 (b) Any provision of any deed making the restriction as
14 described in subsection (a) is hereby declared null and void.
15 Section 2. This act shall be retroactive to December 1,
16 1986.
17 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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