Pennsylvania Act 1911-173 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

Act text

ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                  Act of May 11, 1911, P.L. 271, No. 173              Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Empowering the United States of America to acquire land in the
        State of Pennsylvania for National Forest Reserves, by
        purchase or by condemnation proceedings; and granting to the
        United States of America all rights necessary for control and
        regulation of such reserves.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 302(h) 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 State Forestry Reservation Commission by Act 173
            of 1911.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the United States of
     America is hereby empowered to acquire, by purchase or by making
     adequate compensation under condemnation proceedings, such lands
     in Pennsylvania as, in the opinion of the Federal Government,
     may be needed for the establishment of National Forest Reserves
     in this State, in accordance with an act of Congress, entitled
     "An act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or
     States, or with the United States, for the protection of the
     watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for
     the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the
     navigability of navigable rivers," approved the first day of
     March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven: Provided, That the
     approval of the State Forestry Reservation Commission and the
     Water Supply Commission shall be first had and obtained:
     Provided further, That the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall
     retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and
     over such lands so far that civil process in all cases and such
     criminal process as may issue under the authority of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against any persons charged with
     the commission of any crime, without or within said
     jurisdiction, may be executed thereon in like manner as if this
     act had not been passed.
        (1 amended Apr. 21, 1921, P.L.257, No.129)
        Section 2.  That the said United States of America is hereby
     empowered to pass such laws as it may deem necessary to the
     acquisition of land in Pennsylvania, as hereinbefore provided,
     and for incorporation of such land into said National Forest
     Reserves, as in the opinion of the Federal Government may be
     needed for this purpose.
        Section 3.  That the said United States of America is hereby
     empowered to pass such laws, and to make or provide for the
     making of such rules, of both a civil and criminal nature, and
     provide punishment for the violation thereof, as in its judgment
     may be necessary for the management, control, and protection of
     such lands acquired from time to time by the United States of
     America under the provisions of this act: Provided, however,
     That the authority hereby given shall be subject to all the
     conditions and stipulations and reservations contained in this
     act.
        Section 4.  That this act shall not confer power to condemn
     land now held or hereafter to be acquired by Pennsylvania as and
     for a State Forest Reserve.
        Section 5.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal
     or invalidate or in any way affect the provisions of an act of
     Assembly, approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand
     nine hundred and five, entitled "An act to preserve the purity
     of the waters of the State, for the protection of the public
     health," or the provisions of an act, approved the twenty-
     seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five,
     entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining
     its powers and duties," or the provisions of an act, approved
     the fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred
     and nine, entitled "An act to safeguard human life and health
     throughout the Commonwealth by providing regulations for the
     control of certain communicable diseases and the prevention of
     infection therefrom, and prescribing penalties for the violation
     of said regulations."