PRINTER'S NO. 2945
No. 2092 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY OLIVER, D. EVANS, BISHOP, WATERS, PARKER AND
BLACKWELL, DECEMBER 5, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 5, 2007
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
2 with the approval of the Governor and the Department of
3 Education, to grant and convey to the Berean Manual Training
4 and Industrial School, also known as the Berean Institute,
5 approximately 1.533 acres of land including a building and
6 all improvements thereon, situate at 1901-45 West Girard
7 Avenue in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Conveyance in City of Philadelphia.
11 (a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
12 the approval of the Governor and the Department of Education, is
13 hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of
14 Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Berean Manual Training
15 and Industrial School, also known as the Berean Institute,
16 approximately 1.533 acres of land including a building and all
17 improvements thereon, as described in subsection (b), for $1.
18 (b) Description of property to be transferred to Berean
19 Manual Training and Industrial School.--The property to be
20 conveyed, pursuant to subsection (a) consists of:
1 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the improvements
2 thereon erected, SITUATE in the 29th Ward of the City of
3 Philadelphia, described according to a Survey and Plan of
4 Property made for Redevelopment Authority of the City of
5 Philadelphia by Thomas J. Johnston, Surveyor and Regulator of
6 the 3rd District, dated February 1, 1967, as follows, to wit:
7 BEGINNING at a point of intersection formed by the Easterly side
8 of 20th Street (46 feet wide) and the Northerly side of Girard
9 Avenue (80 feet wide); thence extending North 11 degrees 21
10 minutes East along the said Easterly side of 20th Street, the
11 distance of 121 feet 1 7/8 inches to a point on the Southerly
12 side of South College Avenue (60 feet wide); thence North 83
13 degrees 03 minutes 07 seconds East along the said Southerly side
14 of South College Avenue 155 feet 10 7/8 inches to a point;
15 thence South 6 degrees 56 minutes 53 seconds East, 94 feet 10
16 7/8 inches to a point on the Northerly side of a 3 feet wide
17 alley by deeds, which leads Eastwardly and Westwardly connecting
18 at its Easterly end with a 5 feet wide alley by deeds, which
19 leads Eastwardly; thence South 78 degrees 39 minutes passing
20 through said 5 feet wide alley by deeds 74 feet 9 3/8 inches to
21 a point in the bed of said 5 feet wide alley by deeds; thence
22 North 6 degrees 56 minutes 53 seconds West along the Northerly
23 side of said 3 feet wide alley by deeds and seconds West, partly
24 crossing said 5 feet wide alley by deeds 118 feet 4 5/8 inches
25 to a point on the said Southerly side of South College Avenue;
26 thence North 83 degrees 03 minutes 07 seconds East along the
27 said Southerly side of South College Avenue 192 feet 0 inches to
28 a point on the Westerly side of 19th Street (50 feet wide);
29 thence South 11 degrees 21 minutes West along the said Westerly
30 side of 19th Street 252 feet 8 1/8 inches to a point on the said
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1 Northerly side of Girard Avenue; thence North 78 degrees 39
2 minutes West along the said Northerly side of Girard Avenue 397
3 feet 8 3/4 inches to a point on the said Easterly side of 20th
4 Street, being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
5 (c) Easements.--The conveyance shall be made under and
6 subject to all lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and
7 rights of others, including, but not confined to streets,
8 roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water,
9 electric, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and
10 subject to any lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies
11 vested in third persons appearing of record, for any portion of
12 the land or improvements erected thereon.
13 (d) Covenants.--No portion of the property conveyed shall be
14 used as a licensed facility, as defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103
15 (relating to definitions), or any other similar type of facility
16 authorized under State law. The condition shall be a covenant
17 running with the land and shall be binding upon the buyer
18 (grantee), its successors and assigns. Should the buyer
19 (grantee), its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the
20 property to be used in violation of this restriction, the title
21 shall immediately revert to and revest in the seller (grantor).
22 (e) Additional covenant.--The land herein conveyed shall be
23 used for educational purposes and if at any time the Grantee or
24 its successors in function conveys said property or authorizes
25 or permits said property to be used for any purpose other than
26 those aforementioned, the title to the land herein conveyed
27 shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of
28 Pennsylvania.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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