PRINTER'S NO. 640
No. 54 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY GAMBLE, E. Z. TAYLOR, TRELLO, CIVERA, BELARDI,
CLYMER, MICHLOVIC, MERRY, BELFANTI, FARGO, TIGUE, RAYMOND,
McCALL, FARMER, STABACK, HENNESSEY, CORRIGAN, STERN,
LAUGHLIN, PESCI, HALUSKA AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 7, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 7, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for the sale of
6 unused and unnecessary lands and buildings.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 707 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
10 No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by
11 adding a clause to read:
12 Section 707. Sale of Unused and Unnecessary Lands and
13 Buildings.--The board of school directors of any district is
14 hereby vested with the necessary power and authority to sell
15 unused and unnecessary lands and buildings, by any of the
16 following methods and subject to the following provisions:
17 * * *
18 (8.1) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
19 section, where a city, borough, town or township conveyed
1 without consideration or for nominal consideration lands or
2 buildings to a school district which subsequent to the
3 conveyance combined with another school district and the
4 combined school district thereafter determines that the lands or
5 buildings are unnecessary and unneeded, the school district
6 shall, before proceeding under any other provision of this
7 section, first offer to convey the lands or buildings to the
8 city, borough, town or township without consideration or for
9 nominal consideration.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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