PRINTER'S NO. 1546
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1172
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY BARTOLOTTA, APRIL 22, 2024
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 22, 2024
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Franklin
Township, Greene County, certain lands situate in Franklin
Township, Greene County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Franklin Township, Greene County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Governor, is authorized on behalf of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Franklin
Township, located in Greene County, certain land and buildings
situate in Franklin Township, Greene County, for fair market
value, under terms and conditions to be established in an
agreement of sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
this section consists of approximately 0.6485 acres and any
improvements thereon, bounded and more particularly described as
follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situate in Franklin Township,
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Greene County, Pennsylvania, more particularly bounded and
described as follows:
Beginning at a 4 inch steel casing with concrete, at the edge
of the right of way of Willow Road, Township Road 571, lands now
or formerly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of
General Services, and lands now or formerly of Daniel Greenlee;
thence by lands now or formerly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Department of General Services, and lands now or
formerly of Daniel Greenlee, North 65 degrees 29 minutes 40
seconds West 200.00 feet to a 4 inch steel casing with concrete,
the place of BEGINNING; thence by lands now or formerly of
Daniel Greenlee, South 20 degrees 48 minutes 30 seconds West
105.00 feet to an iron pin; thence by lands now or formerly of
Jack E. Williams OR Daniel Greenlee, North 54 degrees 33 minutes
57 seconds West 93.87 feet to an iron pin; thence by same, North
60 degrees 35 minutes 19 seconds West 194.08 feet to an iron
pin; thence by same, North 46 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West
182.62 feet to an iron pin; thence by lands now or formerly of
the Commonwealth Pennsylvania, Department of General Services,
South 66 degrees 53 minutes 02 seconds East 431.58 feet to a 4
inch steel casing with concrete, the place of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 0.6485 of an Acre, according to an Exhibit for the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General Services,
dated May 14, 2021.
BEING a portion of the same tract of land which was conveyed
to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through The
Department of General Services, by The General State Authority,
by Deed dated June 16, 1989, and recorded January 18, 1990 in
the Recorder's Office of Greene County, Pennsylvania in Record
Book Vol. 74, page 895, and designated as Tract No. 3 therein.
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Being a portion of Tax Parcel No. 07-07-114D.
(c) Easements, servitudes and rights of others.--The
conveyance shall be made under and subject to all lawful and
enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of others,
including, but not limited 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) Prohibited use.--Any 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
binding upon the grantee, its successors and assigns. If the
grantee, its successors or assigns permit any portion of the
property authorized to be conveyed under this section to be used
in violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately
revert to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary of General
Services may include in the deed of conveyance any covenants,
conditions or restrictions on the property as determined to be
in the best interests of the Commonwealth.
(f) Easements.--The Department of General Services is
authorized, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
grant any easements benefiting the property to be conveyed, or
to retain any easements from the property to be conveyed, as the
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Secretary of General Services shall determine to be necessary or
appropriate.
(g) Deed.--The conveyance shall be made by a special
warranty deed to be executed by the Secretary of General
Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(h) Local ordinances.--The conveyance shall be exempt from
the requirements of the Franklin Township subdivision and land
development ordinance.
(i) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(j) Expiration.--If the conveyance authorized under this
section is not completed within two years after the effective
date of this section, the authority contained under this section
shall expire.
(k) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the conveyance authorized
under this section shall be deposited into the General Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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