PRINTER'S NO. 2740
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2343
Session of
2022
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, ROZZI, SANCHEZ, MADDEN, McNEILL, MILLARD
AND NEILSON, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
and the Governor, to grant and convey to The Grist at Mather
Mill, Ltd., certain lands, buildings and improvements situate
in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery
County, known as The Grist at Mather Mill, Ltd.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission and the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to The
Grist at Mather Mill, Ltd., the following tract of land together
with any buildings, structures and improvements thereon, known
as the historic Mather Mill, situate in Whitemarsh Township,
Montgomery County, for $1, under terms and conditions to be
established in an agreement of sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed
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pursuant to subsection (a) consists of a tract of land totaling
approximately 3.185-acres, including all buildings, structures
and improvements located thereon, more particularly described as
follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN piece or parcel of land situate in
Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at the point formed by the intersection of the
center line of Mathers Lane (45 feet wide) and the title line in
the bed of Skippack Pike (50 feet wide); thence extending along
the title line in the bed of Skippack Pike north 44 degrees 30
minutes west crossing the Wissahickon Creek 262.54 feet to a
point; thence extending north 24 degrees 24 minutes east
recrossing said Creek 270.27 feet to an iron pin; thence
extending south 87 degrees 20 minutes east 325.56 feet to a
point in the bed of said Creek; thence extending along land now
or late of Edward W. Heller the following four (4) courses and
distances: (1) through the bed of said Creek south 17 degrees 08
minutes 30 seconds west 180.89 feet to a point; (2) through the
bed of said Creek south 32 degrees 37 minutes west 20.63 feet to
a point; (3) partly through the bed of said Creek south 23
degrees 01 minute east crossing the southerly bank of said Creek
80.90 feet to a stake; and (4) south 13 degrees 05 minutes 30
seconds east 112.78 feet to a point in the center line of
Mathers Lane aforesaid; thence extending along the center line
of Mathers Lane south 79 degrees 55 minutes west 249.32 feet to
the first mentioned point and place of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 3.185-acres of land, more or less.
UNDER AND SUBJECT, NEVERTHELESS, to certain utility rights as
recorded in Deed Book 2600, Page 61, together with certain water
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rights recorded in Deed Book 646, Page 89.
BEING Tax Parcel No. 65-00-10618-009.
BEING the same premises C. Jared Ingersoll and Agnes C.
Ingersoll, husband and wife, conveyed to the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by deed dated April 12, 1966, and recorded April
13, 1966, in Montgomery County Deed Book 3422, Page 407.
(c) Existing encumbrances.--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) Conditions.--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
that term is defined in 4 Pa.C.S. ยง 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 and its
successors and assigns. Should the grantee, its successors or
assigns, 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) Historic preservation covenants.--The conveyance shall
be made under and subject to historic preservation covenants,
which covenants shall be determined by the Pennsylvania
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Historical and Museum Commission and may include a reversionary
interest.
(f) Deed.--The conveyance shall be made by special warranty
deed to be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the
name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(g) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(h) Sunset.--If the conveyance is not effectuated within 18
months after the effective date of this section, the authority
under this section shall expire.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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