PRINTER'S NO. 3500
No. 2693 Session of 1994
INTRODUCED BY MERRY, CAPPABIANCA, SCRIMENTI, BEBKO-JONES, BOYES,
BROWN, KING, FARGO, JADLOWIEC AND LYNCH, APRIL 11, 1994
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 11, 1994
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
2 approval of the Governor and the Department of Education, to
3 convey a tract of land located in the Borough of Edinboro,
4 Erie County, Pennsylvania, to the Borough of Edinboro.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the
8 approval of the Governor and the Department of Education, is
9 hereby authorized and directed to grant and convey to the
10 Borough of Edinboro, Erie County, Pennsylvania, the following
11 tract of land situate in the Borough of Edinboro.
12 All that certain piece or parcel of land bounded and
13 described as follows:
14 Beginning at a post in the north margin of South Street or
15 West Normal Street at the southeast corner of land of I. R.
16 Reeder; thence northwardly along the east line of said Reeder's
17 land to a post in the south line of land of J. R. Steadman;
18 thence eastwardly along the south line of J. R. Steadman 50 feet
19 to the west line of lot of Mrs. Estella Washburn; thence
1 southwardly along the said west line of Mrs. Estella Washburn's
2 land parallel with the west line above described to a post in
3 the north margin of South Street or West Normal Street thence
4 westwardly along the north margin of said street 50 feet to the
5 place of beginning, containing about 40 perches of land, being
6 west half of land conveyed to Henry Steadman, deceased, by Nancy
7 M. and I. N. Taylor. Being the land used and operated for the
8 purpose of a sewage disposal plant for the accommodation of the
9 said State Normal School.
10 Being the same land described in accordance with a deed
11 between the Trustees of the State Normal School of the Twelfth
12 District of Pennsylvania, a corporation of Edinboro, Erie
13 County, Pennsylvania, party of the first part, and the
14 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, party of the second part, recorded
15 April 18, 1914, in Deed Book Volume 206 Page 437, in Erie
16 County, Pennsylvania.
17 Section 2. The conveyance shall be made under and subject to
18 all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but
19 not confined to streets, roadways and rights of any telephone,
20 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
21 well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies
22 vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for
23 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
24 Section 3. The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause
25 that the lands conveyed shall be used and developed as a public
26 park by the Borough of Edinboro and if at any time the borough
27 or its successor in function conveys said property or permits
28 said property to be used for any purpose other than those
29 aforementioned, the title thereto shall immediately revert to
30 and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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1 Section 4. The deed of conveyance shall be approved as
2 provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of
3 General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
4 Pennsylvania.
5 Section 5. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance
6 shall be borne by the grantee.
7 Section 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
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