Pennsylvania Act 1981-40 — CONVEYANCE - LEWIS TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY

Act text

AN ACT

Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Department of Environmental Resources and the Governor, to convey to Lewis Township, 4.108 acres of land situate in Lewis Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.

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

Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Department of Environmental Resources and the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to grant and convey to Lewis Township, Union County, the following tract of land situate in Lewis Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:

All that certain tract of land situate in the Village of Millmont, Township of Lewis, County of Union, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being more particularly bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at an iron pipe corner on the north right-of-way line of Maple Street and being the southwest corner of lands herein described; thence along west line of lands herein described and common to lands of James P. Herrold crossing abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad grade north 23 degrees 15 minutes west 147.17 feet to an iron pipe corner common to lands last mentioned and also being a common corner of lands of Clarence P. Herrold and lands of Kenneth Groff; thence by lands of Kenneth Groff and lands herein described north 66 degrees 45 minutes east 332.20 feet to an iron pipe corner; thence continuing by lands last mentioned north 23 degrees 15 minutes west 23.00 feet to iron pipe corner on the south right-of-way of Penn Street and being common to lands last mentioned; thence by the south right-of-way line of Penn Street and being the north line of lands herein described north 66 degrees 45 minutes east 735.80 feet to railroad spike driven flush to pavement at intersection of said south right-of-way of Penn Street with the west right-of-way of Legislative Route No. 59006; thence in and along Legislative Route No. 59006 south 04 degrees 24 minutes west 214.10 feet to a railroad spike in easterly side of Legislative Route No. 59006 at the intersection of the north right-of-way line of Maple Street; thence along said north right-of-way line of Maple Street south 66 degrees 45 minutes west 968.70 feet to iron pipe corner, place of beginning.

Containing 4.108 acres of land as per survey of September 1972 conducted under direction of Henry F. Hartman, Jr., Registered Surveyor No. 10800-E.

Being a portion of that same property described in a Deed of Conveyance from The Nature Conservancy to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dated March 22, 1972 A. D. and recorded in the Recorder of Deeds Office for Union County in Deed Book Volume 125, Page 188.

Compiler's Note: The Department of Environmental Resources, referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 18 of 1995. Its functions were transferred to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Protection.

Section 2. The Deed of Conveyance shall contain a clause that the lands conveyed shall be used for municipal purposes by Lewis Township and if at any time the township or its successor in function conveys said property or authorizes or permits said property to be used for any purpose other than municipal purposes, the title thereto shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 3. The costs and fees incidental to the conveyance authorized by this act shall be borne by the grantee.

Section 4. 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.

Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.