Pennsylvania Act 1917-88 — STATE FOREST LANDS, PURCHASE OF

Act text

STATE FOREST LANDS, PURCHASE OF
                   Act of May 8, 1917, P.L. 156, No. 88               Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Forestry to purchase surface
        rights to lands, for use as State forests.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 302(h) of Act 18 of 1995, which
            created the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental
            Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection,
            provided that the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources shall exercise the powers and duties conferred
            upon the Department of Forestry by Act 88 of 1917.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Department of
     Forestry is hereby authorized to purchase and receive conveyance
     of surface rights to any lands within this Commonwealth, for
     forestry purposes, and to hold such lands as State forests.
        Section 2.  Where the title to any such land is subject to
     outstanding rights conveying waters, minerals, oil, gas, or
     other valuable deposits, or any privileges or reservations
     whatsoever, the Department of Forestry may, in its discretion,
     accept conveyance of the surface rights to such lands, where the
     administration of scientific and practical forestry will not be
     interfered with or made impossible by such outstanding rights,
     privileges, or reservations.