Pennsylvania Act 1935-320 — STATE PARK, REVOCATION OF GRANTS

Act text

STATE PARK, REVOCATION OF GRANTS
                 Act of Jul. 15, 1935, P.L. 1002, No. 320             Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the Pennsylvania State Park at Erie, authorizing the
        Department of Forests and Waters to revoke and terminate
        certain revocable grants and to acquire, by purchase or
        eminent domain, private property rights or interests in
        respect to any lands within said 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
            Resouces 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 and the
            Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission of Erie by
            Act 320 of 1935.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Department of
     Forests and Waters, acting either directly or through the
     Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission of Erie, shall
     have power at any time, in the name of the Commonwealth, to
     revoke and terminate any revocable grant of any right or
     privilege to occupy and possess any part of the lands in the
     city and county of Erie, dedicated to the use of the public and
     known as the Pennsylvania State Park at Erie, or any wharf or
     pier thereon, which grant has heretofore been made by any public
     or municipal agency pursuant to statutory authority. Such
     revocation shall be in such form as shall be approved by the
     Department of Justice and shall be recorded in the office for
     the recording of deeds in and for the county of Erie.
        Section 2.  The Department of Forests and Waters shall have
     power to acquire, by purchase or the exercise of the power of
     eminent domain, any outstanding private property right or
     interest in any lands within the area of the Pennsylvania State
     Park at Erie. The consideration or compensation and costs in
     connection with such acquisition shall be paid out of any
     appropriation to the Department of Forests and Waters for park
     purposes or to the Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor
     Commission. The procedure in any case of eminent domain shall be
     as prescribed in the act, approved the twentieth day of May, one
     thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (Pamphlet Laws, nine
     hundred eighty-four), entitled "An act providing for the
     condemnation by the Commonwealth of lands suitable and desirable
     for forest purposes or game preserve purposes or the
     perpetuation and protection of fish; and defining the powers and
     duties of the Department of Forestry, the Board of Game
     Commissioners, and the Department of Fisheries, respectively, in
     relation thereto."
        Section 3.  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith
     are hereby repealed.
        Section 4.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon its final enactment.