SENATE AMENDED

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON AND BENNINGHOFF, MARCH 19, 2009

AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, FEBRUARY 8, 2010   

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 bid process, certain lands,

buildings and improvements situate in the City of Oil City,

Venango County; and 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 Oil City, Venango County.

(a)  Authorization.--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, the following tract of

land together with any buildings, structures or improvements

thereon, situate in the City of Oil City, Venango County,

Pennsylvania.

(b)  Property description.--The property to be conveyed

pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 0.23-acres

and building, bounded and more particularly described as

follows:

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

the City of Oil City, Venango County more particularly bounded

and described as follows:

BEGINNING at the Southeast corner of East Second Street and

State Street; thence Easterly along the Southerly side of East

Second Street, one hundred (100) feet; thence Southwardly at

right angles to said line of East Second Street, Ninety-nine and

ninety-two hundredths (99.92) feet to line of property conveyed

by Thomas M. Burk and wife to Edgar T. Eichner by deed dated

February 21, 1901, recorded in Deed Book Volume 253, Page 90;

thence Westwardly along said Eichner's line, one hundred (100)

feet to the Easterly line of State Street aforesaid; thence

Northwardly and along said line of State Street, Ninety-nine and

ninety-two hundredths (99.92) feet to corner of East Second

Street, the place of BEGINNING.

BEING Tax Parcel No. 16-006-206.

BEING the same premises conveyed from Ida R. Magee,

unmarried, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by deed dated

June 6, 1914 and recorded July 10, 1914, in the County of

Venango, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book 333, Page 185.

(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)  Restriction.--Any conveyance authorized under this

section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which

shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of

the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as

defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any

other similar type of facility authorized under the laws of this

Commonwealth. The condition shall be a covenant running with the

land and shall be binding upon the grantee, and its successors.

Should the grantee, or its successors, permit any portion of the

property authorized to be conveyed in this section to be used in

violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert

to and revest in the grantor.

(e)  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.

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

in the State Treasury Armory Fund.

Section 2.  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)  Restriction.--Any conveyance authorized under this

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section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which

shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of

the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as

defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any

other similar type of facility authorized under the laws of this

Commonwealth. The condition shall be a covenant running with the

land and shall be binding upon the grantee, and its successors.

Should the grantee, or its successors, permit any portion of the

property authorized to be conveyed in this section to be used in

violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert

to and revest in the grantor.

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

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deposited in the State Treasury Armory Fund.

Section 3.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect immediately.