PRINTER'S NO. 2947
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2496
Session of
2022
INTRODUCED BY BOBACK AND PICKETT, APRIL 7, 2022
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 7, 2022
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Department of Agriculture and the Governor,
to grant and convey to Wyoming County, certain lands and
improvements situate in the Township of Tunkhannock, Wyoming
County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Township of Tunkhannock, Wyoming
County.
(a) Authorization for conveyance.--The Department of General
Services, with the approval of the Department of Agriculture and
the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Wyoming County, the
following tract of land together with any buildings, structures
or improvements thereon, situate in the Township of Tunkhannock,
Wyoming County, for $125,000, under terms and condition to be
established in an agreement of sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed
pursuant to subsection (a) consists of a tract of approximately
10.268 acres, including all buildings, structures and
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improvements located thereon, more particularly described as
follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND in the Township
of Tunkhannock, County of Wyoming, and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stake situate at the intersection of the
common boundary line of lands now or formerly of Frank P.
Truskalaski and the lands herein described and the west line of
State Highway Route #92, thence along the west line of State
Highway Route #92, South 5 degrees 40 minutes East Five Hundred
(500') feet to a stake; thence along the line of lands now or
formerly of the Tunkhannock Industrial Foundation South 84
degrees 18 minutes West Nine Hundred Eighty-four and Ten-
Hundredths (984.10) feet to a stake in the east line of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad; thence along the east line of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad North 31 degrees 13 minutes West Three Hundred
Sixty-four and Fifty-five Hundredths (364.55') feet to a stake,
said stake being Southeast Five Hundred Thirty-five (535') feet
along the Lehigh Valley Railroad lands from the Northwest corner
of the lands now or formerly of Frank P. Truskalaski, thence
along the lands now or formerly of Frank P. Truskalaski North 75
degrees 47 minutes East One Thousand One Hundred Fifty-four and
Twenty Hundredths (1154.20) feet to a stake in the West line of
State Highway Route #92, the place of beginning.
BEING Tax Parcel No. 26-051-0-111-00-00-00.
BEING the same premises conveyed by The General State
Authority to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by deed dated June
16, 1989 and recorded January 12, 1990, in Wyoming County in
Deed Book Volume 256, Page 795.
(c) Existing encumbrances.--The conveyance shall be made
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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.--Any conveyance authorized under this section
shall be made under and subject to the condition, which shall be
included 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 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) 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.
(f) Covenants, conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary
of General Services may impose any covenants, conditions or
restrictions on the property described in subsection (b) at
settlement as determined to be in the best interests of the
Commonwealth.
(g) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(h) Alternate disposition.--In the event that the conveyance
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authorized in this section is not completed within one year
after the effective date of this section, the authority to
convey the property to Wyoming County as set forth in subsection
(a) shall expire, and the property may be disposed of in
accordance with Article XXIV-A of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.
(i) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited
into the General Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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