PRINTER'S NO. 4315
No. 1276 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY STERN, GEIST, HESS, PHILLIPS, CALTAGIRONE, ROCK,
GODSHALL, CREIGHTON, MAJOR, SAYLOR, REICHLEY, SWANGER,
SIPTROTH, KORTZ, HENNESSEY, M. KELLER, HARHAI, MURT AND
EVERETT, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 28, 1995 (P.L.89, No.18), entitled "An
2 act creating the Department of Conservation and Natural
3 Resources consisting of certain functions of the Department
4 of Environmental Resources and the Department of Community
5 Affairs; renaming the Department of Environmental Resources
6 as the Department of Environmental Protection; defining the
7 role of the Environmental Quality Board in the Department of
8 Environmental Protection; making changes to responsibilities
9 of the State Conservation Commission and the Department of
10 Agriculture; transferring certain powers and duties to the
11 Department of Health; and repealing inconsistent acts,"
12 further providing for contracts and agreements.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 318(c) of the act of June 28, 1995
16 (P.L.89, No.18), known as the Conservation and Natural Resources
17 Act, is amended to read:
18 Section 318. Contracts and agreements.
19 * * *
20 (c) Rights-of-way.--The department shall have the power to
21 lease rights-of-way for a period of not more than [35] 50 years,
1 on terms and conditions as it may consider reasonable, to owners
2 of real property abutting State lands under the jurisdiction of
3 the department.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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