PRINTER'S NO. 793
No. 711 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY HAGARTY, NAHILL, CORNELL, BUNT, GLADECK, SAURMAN,
McCLATCHY AND REBER, APRIL 11, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 11, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for
5 the acquisition and use of real property; and further
6 providing for the authority to construct county buildings.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 2505 of the act of July 28, 1953
10 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, is
11 amended to read:
12 Section 2505. Acquiring and Using Real Property[; Court
13 Approval; Exceptions].--(a) The county commissioners, upon
14 their determination of the necessities of the county, may
15 acquire by purchase, [take by] gift, devise or [by the] power of
16 eminent domain[, in accordance with the provisions of this act,]
17 such real [property at the county seat or in such other places,
18 as may be authorized by law, as they deem necessary] estate
19 within the county for the purposes of [a county courthouse,] the
1 erection or extension of a county building or buildings,
2 including without limitation for the purposes of county jail,
3 prison, workhouse, detention house [or other county building,
4 either in acquisition of a building suitable for such purposes
5 or in the construction of a new building, or in the alteration,
6 including enlargement, of an existing county building. Any
7 purchase herein authorized shall be subject to the approval of
8 the court of common pleas of the county as to purchase price,
9 and no such contract shall bind the county, nor shall any
10 conveyance be valid until the court has so approved the purchase
11 price] and storage of county and county offices' records, either
12 in the acquisition of a building for such purposes or in the
13 construction of a new building, or in the alteration, including
14 the enlargement, of an existing building: Provided, however, The
15 courthouse and offices of the county officers shall be located
16 at the county seat.
17 (b) The county commissioners may also use any real [property
18 at the county seat or elsewhere, as authorized by law,] estate
19 within the county, owned by the county, and deemed suitable [by
20 them] for the purposes aforesaid[, except such property as is
21 bound by contract to another public use].
22 (c) The county commissioners may provide for the grading,
23 filling, draining, gardening and otherwise improving and
24 maintaining of all lands for county buildings, either by
25 contract or by county employes, as they deem proper.
26 (d) To the extent that any of the matters provided for
27 herein are otherwise specifically provided for by law, with
28 regard to any particular acquisitions of real property by
29 counties, either by tax sales or by other purchases, this
30 section shall not apply to such matters.
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1 Section 2. Section 2515 of the act is repealed.
2 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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