Pennsylvania Act 1921-73 — STATE PARK, ESTABLISHMENT

Act text

STATE PARK, ESTABLISHMENT
                  Act of Apr. 12, 1921, P.L. 123, No. 73              Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the establishment and the regulation of a State
        park, to be known as the Snyder-Middleswarth State Park.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 303(b) 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 Snyder-Middleswarth Park Commission and the
            Department of Forests and Waters by Act 73 of 1921.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That a certain tract of
     forest land of five hundred acres, owned by the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania and located along and west of Swift Run in Jacks
     Mountain, is hereby set apart as a State park, and shall be
     known as the Snyder-Middleswarth State Park.
        Section 2.  (2 repealed June 7, 1923, P.L.498, No.274)
        Section 3.  (3 repealed June 7, 1923, P.L.498, No.274)
        Section 4.  Such commission shall have power to definitely
     locate and mark the boundaries of the said State park in the
     forest land of the Commonwealth heretofore described. The area
     of said park shall not exceed five hundred acres.
        Section 5.  It shall be the duty of the commission to
     preserve, care for, lay out, and improve the said park, and to
     make reasonable rules for its use, maintenance, and government.
     The commission shall also have the power to lay out, construct,
     and maintain roads and pathways across and over said park, and,
     for this purpose, may acquire rights of way upon and across any
     intervening lands so as to connect such park roads with public
     roads. For the purpose of obtaining lands necessary to lay out
     and construct any such roads, the commission is authorized to
     acquire the same by purchase or by condemnation proceedings, and
     such condemnation proceedings shall be conducted in the same
     manner and in accordance with the same laws now in force
     providing for the acquisition of land for State highway
     purposes.
        Section 6.  The moneys necessary for the payment of the
     expenses of the commission, the salaries of its appointees, for
     the maintenance and improvement of the park, and for the
     acquisition of lands, shall be paid from appropriations made by
     the General Assembly for such purposes.