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PRINTER'S NO. 4278
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2815
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY COMITTA, FREEMAN, MILLARD, WILLIAMS, SAPPEY,
HOWARD, HILL-EVANS, CIRESI, KORTZ, DALEY, VITALI AND MADDEN,
AUGUST 21, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, AUGUST 21, 2020
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Human
Services, Inc., certain lands and improvements situate in the
Borough of West Chester, Chester County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Borough of West Chester, Chester
County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed
on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and
convey, for $1.00, the following tracts of land together with
any buildings, structures or improvements thereon, situate in
the Borough of West Chester, Chester County to Human Services,
Inc.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
subsection (a) consists of two approximately .15-acre tracts of
land and improvements located thereon, bounded and more
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particularly described as follows:
ALL THOSE two certain pieces, parcels or tracts of land,
situate, lying and being in the Borough of West Chester, County
of Chester and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and
described as follows, to wit:
FIRST PARCEL
BEGINNING at a point in the north street line of Price Street
(sixty feet wide at the distance of 168.81 feet measured south
68 degrees 40 minutes west along the said north street line of
Price Street, from its intersection with the west street line of
Church Street (fifty-five feet wide); extending thence from said
beginning point along the said north street line of Price Street
south 68 degrees 40 minutes west 25.32 feet to a point; thence
extending north 21 degrees 20 minutes west, passing partly
through the center line of a party wall between these premises
and the premises adjoining to the southwest; 143.89 feet to a
point; thence extending north 68 degrees 15 minutes 30 seconds
east 25.32 feet to a point; thence extending south 21 degrees
20 minutes east 144.07 feet to the first mentioned point and
place of beginning;
BEING known for street address purposes as 113 Price Street,
West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
SECOND PARCEL
BEGINNING at a point on the north street line of Price Street
(sixty feet wide) at the distance of 194.13 feet measured south
68 degrees 40 minutes west along the said north street line of
Price Street, from its intersection with the west street line of
Church Street (fifty-five feet wide); extending thence from
said beginning point along the said north street line of Price
Street south 68 degrees 40 minutes west 25.31 feet to a point;
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thence extending north 21 degrees 20 minutes west 143.71 feet to
a point; thence extending north 68 degrees 15 minutes 30
seconds east 25.31 feet to a point; thence extending south 21
degrees 20 minutes east passing partly through the center line
of party wall between these premises and the premises adjoining
to the northeast 143.89 feet to the first mentioned point and
place of beginning.
BEING known for street address purposes as 115 Price Street,
West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
BEING UPI Number 1-9-1007-E.
BEING the same premises which Delco Holding Company, by its
deed dated May 28, 1953 and recorded on May 28, 1953 in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Chester County,
Pennsylvania in Deed Book Q-24, page 212, granted and conveyed
unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in fee.
(c) Requirement for conveyance.--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) Gaming restriction.--A 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
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
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binding upon the Grantee, its successors and assigns. Should
the Grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of
the property authorized to be conveyed in this act to be used in
violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert
to and revest in the Grantor.
(e) Covenants, conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary
of General Services may impose any covenants, conditions,
restrictions and/or reservations on the sale of the property as
is deemed in the best interests of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
(f) Deed.--The conveyance shall be by special warranty deed
and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in
the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(g) Costs and fees.--All costs and fees incurred by the
Department of General Services shall be borne by the Grantee.
(h) Alternate disposition.--In the event that an Agreement
of Sale is not executed between the Department of General
Services and the aforementioned Grantee within two years after
the effective date of this act, the property may be disposed of
through a public bidding process.
(i) Proceeds.--All proceeds from the sale of the property
shall be deposited into the General Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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