Pennsylvania Act 1963-343 — KINZUA BRIDGE STATE PARK - LAND ACQUISITION

Act text

KINZUA BRIDGE STATE PARK - LAND ACQUISITION
                 Act of Aug. 12, 1963, P.L. 658, No. 343              Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the acquisition by the Department of Forests and
        Waters of the Kinzua Bridge and certain adjoining grounds for
        a State park, and making an appropriation.

        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 Department of Forests and Waters by Act 343 of
            1963.

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

        Section 1.  The Department of Forests and Waters is hereby
     authorized to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation
     proceedings, the Kinzua Bridge and such adjoining grounds in
     McKean County, Pennsylvania, as the Secretary of Forests and
     Waters may deem necessary.
        The bridge and grounds shall be preserved and maintained as a
     State park and be known as the Kinzua Bridge State Park.
        Section 2.  The title of the real estate shall be taken in
     the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and shall, before
     its acquisition, be approved by the Department of Justice.
        Section 3.  The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or
     as much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated for the
     purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.