Pennsylvania Act 1975-123 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN NEW HOPE BOROUGH TO BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN NEW HOPE BOROUGH TO BELL TELEPHONE
                                 COMPANY
                 Act of Oct. 21, 1975, P.L. 435, No. 123              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies, with the
        approval of the Governor and the Chairman of the Delaware
        River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, to sell and convey to The
        Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania a tract of land
        located in the Borough of New Hope, Bucks County,
        Pennsylvania.

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

        Section 1.  The Department of Property and Supplies, with the
     approval of the Governor and the Chairman of the Delaware River
     Joint Toll Bridge Commission, is hereby authorized on behalf of
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to convey to The Bell Telephone
     Company of Pennsylvania, for such consideration as an
     independent appraisal obtained through the Department of
     Property and Supplies and paid for by the grantee shall
     determine and the Attorney General shall approve.
        All that certain tract of land, with the buildings thereon
     erected, situate in the Borough of New Hope, County of Bucks,
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, described according to a Plan of
     Survey thereof made by Edward B. Blumrick, Registered Land
     Surveyor, dated December 2, 1974, as follows to wit:
        Beginning at a point, a marble monument, found, on the
     easterly edge of the tow path of the canal (formerly owned by
     the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and now owned by the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), said point also being the
     northwesterly corner of lands now or late of Joseph L. Reading;
     thence along the easterly side of the tow path and a chain link
     fence, north 4 degrees, 30 minutes, 23 seconds west, a distance
     of 122.55 feet to a marble monument, found, being also the
     southwesterly corner of lands now or later of Walter Bair;
     thence along the same and the chain link fence and lands of the
     Borough of New Hope, north 89 degrees, 57 minutes, 46 seconds
     east, a distance of 197.67 feet to a marble monument, found,
     being also the northwesterly corner of lands now or later of
     David A. Guttentag; thence along the same and the chain link
     fence and lands now or late of Robert W. Hilton and Kenneth
     Gibson, south 7 degrees, 23 minutes, 34 seconds east, a distance
     of 123.26 feet to a marble monument, found, being also the
     northwesterly corner of lands now or late of Hampton Hayes and
     the northeasterly corner of a 30 foot wide right-of-way, first
     set off in deed of John C. Parry, et ux, to Joseph Lacey, May
     31, 1853, said right-of-way leading to the herein described
     property from Fisher's Alley; thence still along the chain link
     fence, same also being along the northerly end of the said 30
     foot right-of-way and adjoining other lands of The Bell
     Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and the aforesaid lands of
     Joseph L. Reading, south 89 degrees, 59 minutes west, a distance
     of 203.90 feet to the first mentioned point and place of
     beginning.
        Containing 24,545 square feet of land, more or less. (0.563
     acres)
        County parcel number 27-6-92.
        Together with the free and uninterrupted use of the aforesaid
     right-of-way or passage, 30 feet in width, extending over the
     aforesaid lands formerly of said John C. Parry and between the
     said Hayes' lands and the aforesaid other lands of The Bell
     Telephone Company of Pennsylvania; and
        Together with the rights and privileges of the hereinafter
     referred to 12 foot wide road and any extension thereof over
     lands contiguous to the hereinbefore described premises, both to
     the south and to the north.
        Being the same premises which Jane Fields, widow, et al, by
     deed dated September 29, 1932, and recorded in Bucks County in
     Deed Book 621, page 132, conveyed unto the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania, in fee.
        Subject to the privilege of a 12 foot wide road over the
     westerly side of the above described premises, as contained in
     deed from Elias Ely, et ux, dated April 1, 1834, and recorded in
     Deed Book 63, page 18.
        Under and subject, nevertheless, to any and all operative
     title restrictions, easements, covenants, servitudes or
     conditions of record, or as may be visible upon the property.
        And the recital of the above mentioned rights shall not be
     construed as an acknowledgement of the validity thereof, an
     extension thereof or a renewal thereof in the event that they,
     or any of them, do not affect the premises hereby conveyed or
     have expired or become unenforceable by their own terms or by
     limitations, violation or for any other reason.
        Section 2.  The conveyance shall be made together with all
     rights and privileges, and under and subject to all operative
     title restrictions, easements, covenants, servitudes or
     conditions of record, or as may be visible upon the property, as
     hereinbefore set forth.
        Section 3.  The said land, under such lease agreement between
     The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and the Borough of
     New Hope as shall be mutually acceptable to the parties, shall
     be further subject to the unrestricted right to use by the
     borough for any municipal purposes for a period of five years
     from date of the conveyance provided for herein, and thereafter
     until such time as the telephone company requires the property,
     or any portion or portions thereof, for its own business
     purposes: Provided, however, That the borough shall be
     responsible for all taxes on the entirety of said property for
     the said five year period, and thereafter for all or such
     portion of the taxes as the area of the borough's continued use
     of the property bears to the area of the entire property.
        Section 4.  The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
     Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Department of
     Property and Supplies in the name of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania.
        Section 5.  This act shall take effect immediately.