Pennsylvania Act 1999-56 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MERCER, DAUPHIN AND VENANGO COUNTIES

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MERCER, DAUPHIN AND VENANGO
                                 COUNTIES
                  Act of Nov. 24, 1999, P.L. 901, No. 56              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
        approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Mercer
        County certain lands situate in Coolspring Township, Mercer
        County; authorizing the Department of General Services, with
        the approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to the
        Capital Region Economic Development Corporation, a
        Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, certain lands situate in
        the City of Harrisburg, Dauphin County; and authorizing the
        Department of General Services, with the approval of the
        Governor and the Department of Transportation, to grant and
        convey to Oil City Community Development Corporation certain
        lands situate in the City of Franklin, Venango County,
        Pennsylvania.

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

        Section 1.  (a)  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Mercer
     County certain land and buildings described in subsection (b)
     for fair market value as determined by independent appraisal.
        (b)  The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a),
     known as Lot 1 of the Mercer State Police Barracks Subdivision,
     consisting of approximately 0.85 acres and a building bounded
     and more particularly described as follows:
        Beginning at a point in the center line of S.R. 0058 at the
     northeast corner of the lot herein described; thence south 17
     degrees, 05 minutes east along the center line of S.R. 0058 for
     a distance of 205.85 feet to a point; thence south 88 degrees,
     45 minutes west along lands now or formerly of Gitson for a
     distance of 215.32 feet to an iron pin; thence north 01 degree,
     28 minutes, 30 seconds west along Lot 2 of said subdivision for
     a distance of 198.04 feet to a mag nail; thence north 88
     degrees, 45 minutes east along Lot 2 of said subdivision for a
     distance of 159.93 feet to a point in the center line of S.R.
     0058, said point being the place of beginning for the above
     described parcel.
        Containing 0.85 acres.
        (c)  The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all
     lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of
     others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and
     rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, gas or
     pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any lawful
     and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third persons
     appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements
     erected thereon.
        (d)  The deed of conveyance shall be by special warranty deed
     and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in
     the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        (e)  Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be
     borne by the grantee.
        (f)  In the event that this conveyance is not executed within
     12 months of the effective date of this act, the property may be
     disposed of in accordance with section 2406-A of the act of
     April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative
     Code of 1929.
        Section 2.  (a)  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Capital
     Region Economic Development Corporation certain lands and a
     building described in subsection (b) for fair market value as
     determined by independent appraisal.
        (b)  The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a)
     consists of approximately 2.339 acres of land and a building,
     located in the Seventh Ward of the City of Harrisburg, Dauphin
     County, bounded and more particularly described as follows:
        Beginning at an iron pipe at the intersection of the westerly
     right-of-way line of North Cameron Street (80 feet wide) and the
     southerly right-of-way line of Reily Street (80 feet wide);
     thence along the westerly right-of-way line of North Cameron
     Street, South 10 degrees, 28 minutes, 16 seconds East, a
     distance of 302.91 feet to a steel pin; thence along other lands
     of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (formerly Calder Street) the
     following four (4) courses: (1) South 66 degrees, 20 minutes, 21
     seconds West, a distance of 82.42 feet to a point; (2) by a
     curve to the right, having a radius of 480.00 feet, an arc
     length of 108.48 feet, the chord of which is South 72 degrees,
     48 minutes, 49 seconds West, a distance of 108.25 feet to a
     point; (3) South 79 degrees, 17 minutes, 16 seconds West, a
     distance of 170.96 feet to a P.K. nail; (4) North 10 degrees, 31
     minutes, 46 seconds West, a distance of 246.18 feet to a steel
     rebar, said steel rebar being in the southerly right-of-way line
     of Reily Street; thence along said southerly right-of-way line
     of Reily Street, North 65 degrees, 37 minutes, 00 seconds East,
     a distance of 369.81 feet to an iron pipe, said iron pipe being
     in the westerly right-of-way line of North Cameron Street, the
     point of beginning.
        Containing 2.339 acres of land.
        (c)  The Department of General Services is authorized to
     reserve a permanent easement on the lands herein conveyed over
     the existing driveway (aka Calder Street) for ingress, egress
     and regress to its residual property known as 1400 North Cameron
     Street.
        (d)  The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all
     lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of
     others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and
     rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, gas or
     pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any lawful
     and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third persons
     appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements
     erected thereon.
        (e)  The deed of conveyance shall be by special warranty deed
     and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in
     the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        (f)  Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be
     borne by the grantee.
        Section 3.  (a)  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor and the Department of Transportation,
     is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Oil City Community
     Development Corporation the Department of Transportation's
     Engineering District 1-0 Office Facility, land and buildings
     described in subsection (b) for fair market value as determined
     by independent appraisal.
        (b)  The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a)
     consists of the Department of Transportation's Engineering
     District 1-0 Office Facility, bounded and more particularly
     described as all that certain piece or parcel of land situated
     in the First Ward of the City of Franklin, Venango County,
     Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
                                 PARCEL 1
        Beginning at a post at the Southeast corner of Liberty Street
     and South Park Street; thence Southwardly along the Easterly
     side of Liberty Street a distance of 112.71 feet to the corner
     of lot conveyed by Valvoline Oil Company to Seth J. Cox by deed
     dated November 10, 1939, and recorded in the Recorder's Office
     of said County in Deed Book No. 472, Page 564; thence Eastwardly
     by land conveyed to Seth J. Cox as aforesaid, eighty-six (86)
     feet to land now owned by Helen Patterson Irwin; thence
     Northwardly by land of Helen Patterson Irwin, two and seventy-
     one one-hundredths (2.71) feet to a post; thence Eastwardly by
     the same four (4) feet to a post; thence Northwardly by the same
     one hundred ten (110) feet to the Southerly line of South Park
     Street; thence Westwardly by the Southerly line of said street,
     ninety (90) feet to the place of beginning. Being part of in-
     lots Nos. 460 and 461 as marked and numbered on the General Plan
     of the City of Franklin.
        Being part of the same premises which Valvoline Oil Company,
     by deed dated April 3, 1944, and recorded in the Recorder's
     Office of Venango County in Deed Book 497, Page 383, conveyed to
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
                                 PARCEL 2
        Beginning on the East Side of South Park Street, at a point
     ninety (90) feet from the corner of Liberty and South Park
     Streets; thence along the line of South Park Street North sixty-
     five degrees forty-eight minutes East sixty (60) feet; thence
     South twenty-four degrees twelve minutes East one hundred and
     ninety-two and seventy-one hundredths (192.71) feet; thence
     South sixty-five degrees forty-eight minutes West sixty-four
     (64) feet; thence North twenty-four degrees twelve minutes West
     eighty-two and seventy-one one-hundredths (82.71) feet; thence
     North sixty-five degrees forty-eight minutes East four (4) feet;
     thence North twenty-four degrees twelve minutes West one hundred
     and ten (110) feet to the place of beginning. Being part of In
     Lots four hundred and sixty-one (461), four hundred and sixty
     (460) and four hundred and fifty-seven (457) as surveyed by T.L.
     Kennerdell, City Engineer, April 2, 1897.
        Being the same premises which was conveyed to the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Helen Patterson Irwin Estate, by
     Executor, by deed dated August 24, 1961, and recorded in the
     Recorder's Office of Venango County in Deed Book 655, Page 366.
        The combined parcels contain a total of 0.5056 acres, more or
     less.
        (c)  The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all
     lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of
     others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and
     rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, gas or
     pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any lawful
     and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third persons
     appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements
     erected thereon.
        (d)  The deed of conveyance shall be by special warranty deed
     and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in
     the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        (e)  Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be
     borne by the grantee.
        (f)  The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in the
     Capital Facilities Fund to pay for costs and fees incurred for
     the purchase of a new District 1-0 Office Facility, as set forth
     in the Lease with Option to Purchase Agreement between the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Oil City Community
     Development Corporation dated September 5, 1997, as well as the
     costs and fees incurred by the Department of General Services as
     authorized under section 2406-A of the act of April 9, 1929
     (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929. Any
     proceeds remaining after payment of the above said costs shall
     be transferred to the General Fund.
        (g)  In the event that this conveyance is not executed within
     12 months of the Department of Transportation vacating the
     premises, the property may be disposed of, with the approval of
     the Department of Transportation, in accordance with Article
     2406-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as
     The Administrative Code of 1929. The proceeds from the sale
     shall be deposited in accordance with subsection (f).
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.