Pennsylvania Act 1974-150 — SCHOOL BOARD TO SELL LAND WITHOUT FULL APPROVAL

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SCHOOL BOARD TO SELL LAND WITHOUT FULL APPROVAL
                  Act of Jul. 3, 1974, P.L. 430, No. 150              Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     To validate and quiet the title to lands and buildings
        heretofore sold by boards of school directors at public
        auction or through sealed bids without full compliance with
        provisions of law authorizing such sale.

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

        Section 1.  Whenever any board of school directors shall have
     heretofore sold any unused and unnecessary lands and buildings
     by public auction or sealed bids the sale of which is authorized
     under the provisions of the school laws of the Commonwealth, and
     such board of school directors has received the purchase price,
     then such sale shall be valid and binding on the school
     district, and all deeds or conveyances given by the school
     district for any such lands and buildings are hereby ratified,
     confirmed and validated, and such purchasers and their
     respective heirs, successors and assigns shall hold and may
     convey such titles and estates indefeasibly as to any rights of
     the school districts therein, notwithstanding the fact that the
     notice of the public auction or sealed bid sale was not
     published in the legal newspaper in the county, or by posting of
     handbills, nor over the exact period of time prescribed by law
     in one or more newspapers of general circulation published
     within the county or the school district and notwithstanding the
     fact that the terms and conditions of said sales were not fixed
     by the board of school directors in the motion or resolution
     authorizing said sales: Provided, That notice of such public
     auctions or invitation for sealed bids was published in one or
     more newspapers of general circulation published within the
     county or the school district for at least three times before
     the date fixed for said sales, each time being in a different
     week, and providing that the terms and conditions of said sales
     were fixed by the board of school directors prior to the holding
     of such sales, and providing also that all the other
     requirements of law concerning the authorization, advertising
     and holding of such sale have been complied with.
        Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.