PRINTER'S NO. 137
No. 137 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY MELLOW, FEBRUARY 6, 1979
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 6, 1979
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
2 with the approval of the Governor, to convey to the Scranton
3 Primary Health Care Center, Inc., a certain parcel of land
4 together with a building erected thereon, situate in the City
5 of Scranton, County of Lackawanna, Pennsylvania.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the
9 approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on
10 behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to grant and convey
11 to the Scranton Primary Health Care Center, Inc., the following
12 tract of land, together with a building erected thereon, bounded
13 and described as follows:
14 All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate in the
15 City of Scranton, County of Lackawanna and Commonwealth of
16 Pennsylvania, described as follows, viz:
17 Lots Number Twenty-three (23) and Twenty-four (24) in Square
18 or Block Number Two Hundred Twenty-six (226) and situate upon
19 street called and known as Wyoming Avenue upon the plot of
20 Scranton, intended to be duly registered and recorded, said lots
1 being together eighty (80) feet in front and one hundred sixty-
2 seven (167) feet in depth; and rectangular with an alley in the
3 rear sixteen (16) feet wide for public use, and with the
4 privilege of using ten (10) feet in front of the front line of
5 said lots on Wyoming Avenue and Ash Street for door, yard,
6 vault, piazza, porch or bay window, but for no other purpose;
7 the top line of said vault in no case to be higher than the top
8 of the sidewalk.
9 Together with the right of surface support acquired by deed
10 of the Scranton Trust Company to the School District of the City
11 of Scranton, dated August 28, 1917 and recorded in Lackawanna
12 County in Deed Book Volume 280, at Page 271.
13 Being the same premises conveyed to the Commonwealth of
14 Pennsylvania by deed dated October 25, 1954 by the School
15 District of the City of Scranton, recorded in Lackawanna County
16 Recorder of Deeds Office in Deed Book Volume 528, at Page 193.
17 And being the same premises conveyed to the City of Scranton
18 School District by deed of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company,
19 dated May 1, 1882 and recorded in Lackawanna County in Deed Book
20 Volume 11, at Page 494.
21 Together with all and singular the improvements, ways,
22 waters, water courses, rights, privileges, hereditaments and
23 appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in anywise
24 appertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues
25 and profits thereof; and all the estate, right, title, interest,
26 property, claim and demand whatsoever of the Commonwealth of
27 Pennsylvania in law, equity or otherwise howsoever of, in and to
28 the same and every part thereof.
29 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all
30 easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but not
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1 confined to streets, roadways, and rights of any telephone,
2 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
3 well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies
4 vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for
5 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
6 Section 2. The deed of conveyance for the property described
7 in section 1 shall contain a clause that the lands conveyed
8 shall be used for health care purposes by the Scranton Primary
9 Health Care Center and if at any time the said Scranton Primary
10 Health Care Center or its successor in function conveys said
11 property or authorizes or permits said property to be used for
12 any purpose other than health care purposes, the title thereto
13 shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of
14 Pennsylvania.
15 Section 3. The deed of conveyance for the property described
16 in section 1 shall be approved by the Department of Justice and
17 shall be executed by the Secretary of the Department of General
18 Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
19 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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