Pennsylvania Act 1980-6 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY

Act text

AN ACT

Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, to convey to the Scranton Primary Health Care Center, Inc., a certain parcel of land together with a building erected thereon, situate in the City of Scranton, County of Lackawanna, Pennsylvania.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Department of Public Welfare, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to grant and convey for a consideration of $1 to the Scranton Primary Health Care Center, Inc., the following tract of land, together with a building erected thereon, bounded and described as follows:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate in the City of Scranton, County of Lackawanna and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, described as follows, viz:

Lots number twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24) in square or block number two hundred twenty-six (226) and situate upon street called and known as Wyoming Avenue upon the plot of Scranton, intended to be duly registered and recorded, said lots being together eighty (80) feet in front and one hundred sixty-seven (167) feet in depth; and rectangular with an alley in the rear sixteen (16) feet wide for public use, and with the privilege of using ten (10) feet in front of the front line of said lots on Wyoming Avenue and Ash Street for door, yard, vault, piazza, porch or bay window, but for no other purpose; the top line of said vault in no case to be higher than the top of the sidewalk the total amount being conveyed having approximately one-half (1/2) acre.

Together with the right of surface support acquired by deed of the Scranton Trust Company to the School District of the City of Scranton, dated August 28, 1917 and recorded in Lackawanna County in Deed Book Volume 280, at Page 271.

Being the same premises conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by deed dated October 25, 1954 by the School District of the City of Scranton, recorded in Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds Office in Deed Book Volume 528, at Page 193.

And being the same premises conveyed to the City of Scranton School District by deed of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, dated May 1, 1882 and recorded in Lackawanna County in Deed Book Volume 11, at Page 494.

Together with all and singular the improvements, ways, waters, water courses, rights, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof; and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in law, equity or otherwise howsoever of, in and to the same and every part thereof.

The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but not confined to streets, roadways, and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.

Compiler's Note: The Department of Public Welfare, referred to in this section, was redesignated as the Department of Human Services by Act 132 of 2014.

Section 2. The Deed of Conveyance for the property described in section 1 shall contain a clause that the lands conveyed shall be used for the purpose of operating a primary health care center exclusively for charitable purposes of the Scranton Primary Health Care Center a not-for-profit Pennsylvania corporation. The center shall treat and care for the sick, injured, afflicted, infirm or disabled and shall be operated principally for use by low-income persons. If at any time the said Scranton Primary Health Care Center or its successor in function conveys said property or authorizes or permits said property to be used for any purpose other than a primary health care center, the title thereto, shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 3. The Deed of Conveyance for the property described in section 1 shall be approved by the Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of the Department of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 4. The costs and fees related to the preparation and recordation of the conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.

Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.