Pennsylvania Act 1998-142 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN WASHINGTON, MONTGOMERY AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN WASHINGTON, MONTGOMERY AND FRANKLIN
                                 COUNTIES
                 Act of Dec. 21, 1998, P.L. 1074, No. 142             Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and directing the Department of Military and
        Veterans Affairs and the Department of General Services, with
        the approval of the Governor, to grant and convey land and
        buildings situate thereon: a tract of land and building
        situate at 78 West Maiden Street, City of Washington,
        Washington County, Pennsylvania, known as the Washington
        Armory, to Joseph Pintola; a tract of land situate in the
        Borough of Norristown, County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania;
        and a tract of land situate in Hamilton Township, Franklin
        County, Pennsylvania.

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

        Section 1.  (a)  The Department of Military and Veterans
     Affairs and the Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, are hereby authorized and directed on
     behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey
     for consideration equal to the fair market value as determined
     by an independent appraiser the tract of land bounded and
     described as follows:
        Beginning at a point in the southerly side of Maiden Street,
     at line of land conveyed by the party of the first part hereto
     to Laura A. Halpin, by deed recorded in the Recorder's Office of
     Washington County in Deed Book Vol. 281, Page 261; thence
     southwardly along said lot of Laura A. Halpin, 240 feet, more or
     less, to land of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; thence
     westwardly along lands of said Railroad Company, 70 feet, more
     or less, to line of land now or late of Phillips heirs; thence
     northwardly along said land of Phillips heirs, 240 feet, more or
     less, to the southerly line of Maiden Street; and thence
     eastwardly along the southerly side of Maiden Street, 70 feet,
     more or less, to the place of beginning.
        And being the same lot of land conveyed unto the Commonwealth
     by Harriet S. Baird, by deed dated August 3, 1915, of record in
     the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Washington County in Deed
     Book Vol. 427, Page 477.
        (b)  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 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.
        (c)  The proceeds of this sale shall be paid into the State
     Treasury and deposited in the State Treasury Armory Fund.
        (d)  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.
        (e)  In the event this property is not conveyed to Joseph
     Pintola within 12 months of the effective date of this act, at
     the discretion of the Secretary of General Services, the
     property shall be offered for sale through auction, sealed bid
     or request for proposal, under terms and conditions in section
     2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as
     The Administrative Code of 1929, and this section authorizing
     the sale of the herein-noted property to Joseph Pintola shall
     expire and become null and void.
        (f)  Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be
     borne by the Grantee.
        Section 2.  (a)  The Department of Military and Veterans
     Affairs and the Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, are hereby authorized and directed on
     behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey,
     at a price to be determined through competitive bidding, the
     following tract of land together with any buildings, structures
     or improvements thereon, situate in the Borough of Norristown,
     Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
     follows:
        All that certain tract or piece of land situate in the
     Borough of Norristown, County of Montgomery and State of
     Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a plan made by
     S. Cameron Corson, Borough Engineer, on December 7, 1926, as
     follows, to wit:
        Beginning at a stake set 86 and six-tenths feet Southerly
     from the intersection of the South house line of James Street
     with the Western house line of the Harding Boulevard; thence
     continuing in a Southerly direction along the said Westerly
     house line of the Harding Boulevard on a curved line having a
     radius of 1,450 feet 100 feet to a stake which is the end of the
     curve; thence continuing in a Southerly direction along said
     Western house line of the said Boulevard 100 feet to a stake or
     corner; thence at a right angle to the last line and along other
     land of the Borough of Norristown Westerly 120 feet to a stake
     or corner; thence at a right angle to the last line and along
     other land of the Borough of Norristown Northerly 200 feet to a
     stake or corner; and thence at a right angle to the last line
     Easterly along other land of the Borough of Norristown 123 and
     twenty-seven hundredths feet to the place of beginning.
        (b)  The proceeds of the sale of the land and armory herein
     authorized to be conveyed shall be deposited in the State
     Treasury Armory Fund.
        (c)  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.
        Section 3.  (a)  The Department of Military and Veterans
     Affairs and the Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, are hereby authorized and directed on
     behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey,
     at a price to be determined through competitive bidding, the
     following tract of land together with any buildings, structures
     or improvements thereon, situate in Hamilton Township, Franklin
     County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point on Lincoln Highway 45 feet in a westerly
     direction from the existing pole line of the Franklin
     Transmission Company marked by an iron pin in said Highway;
     thence by other land of the grantor south 4 degrees 23 minutes
     west 1048.5 feet to an iron pin at corner of other lands of the
     grantor and W. H. Gluck; thence by land of W. H. Gluck north 83
     1/2 degrees west 336.6 feet to an iron pin at the corner of
     lands of W. H. Gluck and other lands of the grantor; thence by
     other lands of grantor north 7 degrees 32 minutes east 927.3
     feet to an iron pin in the Lincoln Highway; thence by lands of
     Anne Horn north 75 1/4 degrees east 300 feet to an iron pin in
     the Lincoln Highway, place of beginning, containing 7 acres neat
     measure.
        Being part of the same premises which John B. Monn and B.
     Elva Monn, his wife, by deed dated the twenty-seventh day of
     January, 1930, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of
     Deeds in and for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book
     230, Page 80, ex., granted and conveyed unto the said
     Chambersburg Trust Company, its successors and assigns.
        As evidenced by an approved Certificate of Title, dated
     November 15, 1960, and furnished by George Skinner Black,
     Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
        (b)  The proceeds of the sale of the land and armory herein
     authorized to be conveyed shall be deposited in the State
     Treasury Armory Fund.
        (c)  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.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.