Pennsylvania Act 1907-156 — HISTORICAL LAND EXEMPT FROM EMINENT DOMAIN

Act text

HISTORICAL LAND EXEMPT FROM EMINENT DOMAIN
                  Act of May 10, 1907, P.L. 196, No. 156              Cl. 26
                                  AN ACT

     Exempting certain real estate from the power of eminent domain
        as exercised by corporations incorporated under the laws of
        Pennsylvania.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That no corporation now
     incorporated under the laws of this State, or which shall
     hereafter be incorporated thereunder, shall exercise the right
     of eminent domain as against the land now occupied by any
     building which was used during the Colonial or Revolutionary
     period as a place of assembly by the Council of the Colony of
     Pennsylvania, or by the Supreme Executive Council of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or by the Congress of the United
     States; or as against the land now occupied by any fort,
     redoubt, or blockhouse erected during said Colonial or
     Revolutionary period; or as against any building used as
     headquarters by the Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army;
     or as against the site of any such building, fort, redoubt,
     blockhouse or headquarters, which said building, fort, redoubt,
     blockhouse or headquarters, or site thereof, is now or shall
     hereafter be preserved for its historic memories and
     associations, and not for private profit: Provided, That the
     said Colonial and Revolutionary period, as applied to the
     buildings, forts, redoubts, blockhouses or headquarters, or the
     sites thereof, as aforesaid, shall be taken as ended on the
     third day of September, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred
     and eighty-three.
        (1 repealed Jun. 23, 1931, P.L.932, No.317, in so far as it
     relates to third class cities)