PRINTER'S NO. 1112
No. 967 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY MADIGAN, MAY 23, 1989
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, MAY 23, 1989
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Department of Environmental Resources to accept
2 a certain railroad line from the Consolidated Rail
3 Corporation and to defend and indemnify the Consolidated Rail
4 Corporation in actions arising under the acceptance.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. To the extent authorized by section 8(d) of the
8 National Trails System Act (Public Law 90-543, 16 U.S.C. §
9 1247(d)) and 49 CFR 1152.29 (relating to prospective use of
10 rights-of-way for interim trail use and rail banking), the
11 Department of Environmental Resources, acting on behalf of the
12 Commonwealth, is authorized to do all of the following:
13 (1) Accept, for recreational and historic purposes, from
14 the Consolidated Rail Corporation the Corning Secondary Line
15 in Lycoming County and Tioga County between milepost 168.1
16 and milepost 105.9.
17 (2) Agree to be responsible for the line accepted under
18 paragraph (1).
19 (3) Agree to indemnify and defend the Consolidated Rail
1 Corporation in actions for property damage, personal injury
2 or death in connection with the acceptance of the line under
3 paragraph (1).
4 (4) Agree to indemnify the Consolidated Rail Corporation
5 against other expenses and losses in connection with the
6 acceptance of the line under paragraph (1).
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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