Pennsylvania Act 1984-120 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN WAYNE COUNTY

Act text

AN ACT

Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Department of Public Welfare, to convey to Canaan Township 2.307 acres of land, more or less, situate in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

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

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 one-half of the fair market value as determined by an independent appraisal, to Canaan Township the following tract of land situate in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania described in accordance with a plan prepared for Canaan Township, dated May 9, 1983, as prepared by Alfred K. Bucconear, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and bounded and described as follows:

All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, situate and being in the Township of Canaan, County of Wayne and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to witness:

Beginning at a point or corner, located in the centerline of Pennsylvania Legislative Route No. 63102, being a common corner of lands of Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane and being located on a projection of the southern division line of lands of Lewis C. and Margaret A. Henshaw - Deed: 375, Page: 193; thence, along the centerline of the aforesaid Pennsylvania Legislative Route No. 63102, south 06 degrees 26 minutes 00 seconds west 209.00 feet to a point or corner; thence, departing from said roadway, along the northern division line of lands of William A. Salak - Deed: 368, Page: 365 and through lands of the aforesaid Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, north 82 degrees 08 minutes 00 seconds west 453.58 feet to an iron pin corner set; thence, continuing through lands of the aforesaid Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, north 10 degrees 08 minutes 00 seconds east 241.60 feet to an iron pin corner set, being the southwest corner of lands of the aforesaid Lewis C. and Margaret A. Henshaw; thence, along the southern division line of lands of the aforesaid Lewis C. and Margaret A. Henshaw, south 77 degrees 54 minutes 00 seconds east 440.00 feet to the place of beginning.

Containing, within bounds, 2.307 acres of land, inclusive of that area occupied by road and utilities right-of-way.

Being a part of the same premises which the Board of Trustees of the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane acquired by lawful condemnation from Charles E. Keen, Ida C. Norris, Nora L. Keen and James B. Keen, Jr., by proceedings and entries as filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, under Docket No. 209, June Term 1915.

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 shall contain a clause that the lands conveyed shall be used for municipal purposes by Canaan Township and, if at any time the township or its successor in function conveys said property or permits said property to be used for any purpose other than those aforementioned, the title thereto shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 3. The proceeds of this sale shall be paid into the State Treasury and deposited in the Capital Facilities Redemption Fund.

Section 4. The deed of conveyance shall be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 5. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.

Section 6. This act shall take effect immediately.