PRINTER'S NO. 1188
No. 1065 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY McKELVEY, APRIL 25, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 25, 1979
AN ACT
1 Requiring the sale by the Department of Transportation of
2 property interests acquired for certain highway projects in
3 Philadelphia County.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Upon the effective date of this act, the
7 Department of Transportation shall offer for sale, at the
8 department's acquisition price, certain property interests
9 acquired in connection with the Pulaski-Roosevelt Boulevard
10 interchange in Philadelphia County as follows:
11 (1) 4700 block Roosevelt Boulevard;
12 (2) 800 block Foulkrod Street;
13 (3) 800 block Bridge Street; and
14 (4) 800 block Granite Street.
15 Section 2. The department shall offer the easement or fee
16 simple title acquired to the present tenant at the acquisition
17 price. The tenant shall have this right of first refusal, and
18 shall notify the department within 60 days whether he accepts or
19 rejects the offer.
1 Section 3. If the present tenant rejects the offer, then the
2 department shall make the same offer to the owner from whom the
3 department acquired the property. The owner shall have this
4 right of second refusal, and shall notify the department within
5 60 days whether he accepts or rejects the offer.
6 Section 4. If both the tenant and owner reject the offer,
7 the department shall then proceed immediately with the necessary
8 arrangements for a public sale to the highest bidder.
9 Section 5. The Department of Transportation shall be liable
10 to the City of Philadelphia for any real estate taxes that might
11 be due during the period the department owned such property
12 pursuant to the eminent domain proceedings. The department shall
13 also reimburse any owner the amount of real estate taxes that he
14 has paid on the property from the time of the declaration of
15 taking.
16 Section 6. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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