Bill Text: PA HB2107 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, to grant and convey to Waynesburg University certain lands situate in the Borough of Waynesburg, Greene County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-09 - Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS [HB2107 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2107-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3019
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2107 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, SOLOBAY, PETRARCA, PALLONE, HALUSKA, SAINATO, MARKOSEK, LONGIETTI, CASORIO, MATZIE, GIBBONS, DALEY, MAHONEY, WHITE AND KULA, DECEMBER 15, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15, 2009
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor and the Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs, to grant and convey to Waynesburg
University certain lands situate in the Borough of
Waynesburg, Greene County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance to Waynesburg University.
The Department of General Services, with the approval of the
Governor and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, is
hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to grant and convey to Waynesburg University the following tract
of land together with any buildings, structures or improvements
thereon, situate in the Borough of Waynesburg, Greene County for
$170,000 and under terms and conditions to be established in an
agreement of sale.
Section 2. Description.
The property to be conveyed pursuant to Section 1 consists of
approximately 0.22-acres of land and an armory building, bounded
and more particularly described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situate in the Borough of
Waynesburg, Greene County more particularly bounded and
described as follows:
BEGINNING at the northwesterly corner of Washington Street
and Strawberry Alley; thence along the Westerly line of
Washington Street, North 1 degree 0 minutes East 80 feet to line
of land now or late of J.W. Ray, et al; thence Westwardly at
right angles to Washington Street, along said Ray line and line
of lands now or late of T.R. Huffman and M.R. Travis, 120 feet
to line of land now or late of T.R. Huffman; thence Southwardly
along said Huffman line, parallel with Washington Street, 80
feet to the Northerly line of Strawberry Alley; thence
Eastwardly along the Northerly line of Strawberry Alley, 120
feet to Washington Street, at the place of BEGINNING.
BEING Tax Parcel No. 2604-120.
BEING the same premises conveyed from J.B. Pollock and Alice
T. Pollock, his wife, C.H. Bowlby and Eva K. Bowlby, his wife
and T. Riley Huffman and Bertha H. Huffman to the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, by deed dated October 11, 1913 and recorded
October 14, 1913, in the Recorder of Deeds Office for Greene
County, Pennsylvania in Deed Book 231, Page 547.
Section 3. Conditions.
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
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erected thereon.
Section 4. Additional conditions.
Any conveyance authorized under this act 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. §
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 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.
Section 5. Special warranty deed.
The deed of 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.
Section 6. Costs and fees.
Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne
by the Grantee.
Section 7. Proceeds.
The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in the State
Treasury Armory Fund.
Section 8. Time limitation.
In the event that an agreement of sale between the parties is
not executed within one year of the effective date of this act,
the property may be disposed of in accordance with section 2405-
A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
Administrative Code of 1929.
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Section 9. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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