THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY ROAE, MARCH 9, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 9, 2009  

AN ACT

Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the

approval of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

and the Governor, to grant and convey, at a price to be

determined through a competitive bidding process, certain

lands, buildings and improvements situate in the First Ward

of the City of Meadville, Crawford County.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Conveyance in City of Meadville, Crawford County.

(a)  Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with

the approval of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

and the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey the following

tract of land together with any buildings, structures or

improvements on the land, situate in the First Ward of the City

of Meadville, Crawford County. The Department of General

Services shall sell the property using, in its discretion,

either an invitation for sealed bids or a public auction.

(b)  Description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to

subsection (a) consists of approximately 0.3297-acres and a

building bounded and more particularly described as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situate in the First Ward of

the City of Meadville, County of Crawford, Pennsylvania, being

part of Lots Number One Hundred Five and One Hundred Six (#105

and #106) in the original plan of Meadville as laid out by David

Mead, more particularly bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING, at the Northeast corner of Center Street and

Diamond Park; thence along the Westerly line of Diamond Park in

a Southerly direction a distance of ninety-three and five tenths

(93.5) feet to line of lot formerly of Mrs. Harriet D. McNulty,

now Rose G. Lippitt; thence in a Westerly direction by a line

parallel with Center Street, a distance of one hundred fifty

(150) feet to a point in said Lippitt's line; thence in a

Northerly direction by other lands of R. Bruce Gamble and E.

Lowry Humes and parallel with Diamond Park, a distance of

ninety-three and five tenths (93.5) feet to the Southerly line

of Center Street; thence by said line of Center Street in an

Easterly direction a distance of one hundred fifty (150) feet to

the corner of Center Street and Diamond Park, the place of

BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 0.3297-acres more or less.

BEING the same premises conveyed by R. Bruce Gamble and Nella

M. Gamble, his wife, and E. Lowry Humes and Mary E. Humes, his

wife, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by deed dated

February 7, 1912 and recorded in the Recorder's Office of

Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Volume 195, Page 11.

(c)  Conditions.--The conveyance shall be made under and

subject to all lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and

rights of others, including but not confined to streets,

roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water,

electric, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and

subject to any lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies

vested in third persons appearing of record, for any portion of

the land or improvements erected thereon.

(d)  Deed.--The deed of conveyance shall be by Special

Warranty Deed and shall be executed by the Secretary of General

Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(e)  Proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited

in the State Treasury Armory Fund.

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect immediately.