PRINTER'S NO. 1760
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1232
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, MAY 9, 2016
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 9, 2016
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Moshannon
Valley Economic Development Partnership, Inc., certain lands
and improvements situate in Rush Township, Centre County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Rush Township, Centre County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to
Moshannon Valley Economic Development Partnership, Inc., certain
land together with any improvements thereon, situate in Rush
Township, Centre County, for $150,000 and under terms and
conditions to be established in an agreement of sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed
pursuant to this section consists of approximately 14.797 acres
of land and improvements thereon, bounded and more particularly
described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot, parcel, tract or piece of land, situate
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in the Township of Rush, County of Centre and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with Property Plan by H.F. Lenz
Company, dated 11/3/14, bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin with aluminum cap set at the
intersection of the northerly line of land of Rebecca Young with
the easterly right of way line of Loch Lomond Road (Township
Road No. 804);
Thence, along said easterly right of way line, North Twenty-
Two degrees Twenty-Three minutes Thirty-One seconds East (N
22º23'31" E), a distance of Nine Hundred Thirty and Sixteen
hundredths feet (930.16') to a railroad spike set in pavement on
the southerly right of way line of Medical Center Drive
(Township Road No. 951);
Thence, along said southerly right of way line, South Sixty-
Seven degrees Sixteen minutes Eight seconds East (S 67º16'08"
E), a distance of Seven Hundred Eleven and Twenty-Three
hundredths feet (711.23') to a railroad spike set in pavement
the westerly line of land of Penn State Geisinger Clinic;
Thence, along said westerly line and the westerly line of
lands of James Croyle and of Deloris L. Kozak, South Twenty-One
degrees Forty-Nine minutes Six seconds West (S 21º49'06" W), a
distance of Seven Hundred Seventeen and Ninety hundredths feet
(717.90') to an extant concrete monument of the northerly line
of land of R. Jean Clinton;
Thence, along said land of R. Jean Clinton, the following Two
(2) courses:
(1) North Sixty-Seven degrees Fifty minutes Zero seconds
West (N 67º50'00" W), a distance of One Hundred and Four
hundredths feet (100.04') to an extant concrete monument and
(2) South Twenty-Two degrees Nine minutes Three seconds
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West (S 22º09'03" W) and passing through an extant concrete
monument, a distance of One Hundred Ninety-Two and Eighty-Two
hundredths feet (192.82') to an iron pin with aluminum cap
set on the northerly right of way line of Black Moshannon
Road (State Road No. 0504)
Thence, along said northerly right of way line, by a non-
tangential curve to the left having a radius of Two Hundred
Ninety and Forty-Four hundredths feet (290.44'), a chord bearing
South Sixty-Four degrees Twenty-Six minutes Ten seconds West (S
64º26'10" W) for a distance of Twenty-Five and Sixty hundredths
feet (25.60') and an arc length of Twenty-Five and Sixty-One
hundredths feet (25.61') to an iron pin with aluminum cap set on
the northerly right of way line of Philipsburg-Osceola Area
School District;
Thence, along said northerly line and the northerly line of
land of Rebecca Young, North Sixty-Seven degrees Twelve minutes
Fifty-One seconds West (N 67º12'51" W), a distance of Six
Hundred Two and Five hundredths feet (602.05') to the Point of
Beginning.
Encompassing an area of Six Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Five
Hundred Seventy-One square feet (644,571 sq. ft.) or Fourteen
and Seven Hundred Ninety-Seven thousandths acres (14.797 ac.)
Being comprised of lands acquired by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by the following Five (5) deeds:
(1) deed of Frederick and Bertha S. Smith dated April
29, 1889 and recorded in Centre County Deed Book Volume 60 on
Page 104 on February 8, 1890,
(2) deed of Frederick and Bertha S. Smith dated August
6, 1923 and recorded in Centre County Deed Book Volume 129 on
Page 622 on August 14, 1923,
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(3) Deed of Austin Chalmer and Henrietta Briel Lynn
dated June 8, 1949 and recorded in Centre County Deed Book
Volume 205 on Page 384 on June 11, 1949,
(4) deed of Samuel L. Barr, William H. Lynn and Michael
Maines, Executors of the last will and testament of Austin C.
Lynn dated February 1954 and recorded in Centre County Deed
Book Volume 222 on Page 369 on March 12, 1954 and
(5) Parcels 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the deed of the General
State Authority dated June 16, 1989 and recorded in Centre
County Deed Book Volume 533 on Page 121 on July 3, 1990.
BEING Tax Parcel No. 5-26A-111
(c) Requirement for conveyance.--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) Condition.--The 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 State law. The
condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be
binding upon the Grantee, its successors and assigns. Should the
Grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the
property authorized to be conveyed in this act to be used in
violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert
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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) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the Grantee.
(g) Alternative disposition.--In the event that an agreement
of sale is not executed between the Department of General
Services and the Grantee within one year of the effective date
of this section, the property may be disposed of in accordance
with section 2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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