1Amending the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205, No.69), entitled
2"An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which
3have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for 
4validation of certain conveyances and other instruments.

5The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6hereby enacts as follows:

7Section 1. Section 1 of the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205,
8No.69), entitled "An act to validate conveyances and other
9instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," amended
10July 5, 2005 (P.L.68, No.27), is amended to read:

11Section 1. No grant, bargain and sale, feoffment, deed of
12conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other assurance of
13lands, tenements and hereditaments, whatsoever, bearing date
14prior to the year two thousand [five] thirteen, made, executed
15and delivered by husband and wife, or by any person or trustee
16or attorney in fact for any other person or persons, to a bona
17fide purchaser or purchasers for a valuable consideration, and
18acknowledged before any officer duly authorized by law to take

1such acknowledgment, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid
2or defective or insufficient in law by reason of any informality
3or defect in such acknowledgment as not being made according to
4law, or because the date of the acknowledgment predates the date
5of the instrument, or by reason of the acknowledgment thereto
6having been made by any trustee or attorney in fact in his
7individual capacity instead of as such trustee or attorney in
8fact; but all and every such grant, bargain and sale, feoffment,
9deed of conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other
10assurance, so made, executed and acknowledged, as aforesaid,
11shall be as good, valid and effectual in law for transferring,
12passing and conveying the estate, right, title and interest of
13such husband and wife of, in and to the lands, tenements and
14hereditaments mentioned in the same, as if all the requisites
15and particulars of such acknowledgment had been made according
16to law, and as if such trustee or attorney in fact had made the
17acknowledgment thereto in such capacity; and the record of the
18same duly made in the proper office for recording of deeds in
19this Commonwealth, and exemplifications of the same duly
20certified, shall be legal evidence in all cases in which the
21original would be competent evidence.

22Section 2. This act shall not apply to lawsuits now pending
23and undetermined.

24Section 3. This act shall take effect <-in 60 days January 1, 
252014, or in 60 days, whichever is later.