Conveyance in City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

Act 100 of 2014, § 7, under CONVEYANCES - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MULTIPLE MUNICIPALITIES.

Act 100 of 2014, § 7

Section 7. Conveyance in City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County.

(a) Authorization.--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 Philadelphia Technician Training School certain land, and all improvements located thereon, situate in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, for $2,200,000.

(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 1.53 acres of land and improvements thereon bounded and more particularly described as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the improvements thereon erected, situate in the 29th Ward of the City of Philadelphia, described according to a Survey and Plan of Property made for the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia by Thomas J. Johnston, Surveyor and Regulator of the 3rd District, dated February 1, 1967, as follows, to wit:

BEGINNING at a point of intersection formed by the Easterly side of 20th Street (46 feet wide) and the Northerly side of Girard Avenue (80 feet wide); thence extending North 11 degrees 21 minutes East along the said Easterly side of 20th Street, the distance of 121 feet 1 7/8 inches to a point on the Southerly side of South College Avenue (60 feet wide); thence North 83 degrees 03 minutes 07 seconds East along the said Southerly side of South College Avenue 155 feet 10 7/8 inches to a point; thence South 6 degrees 56 minutes 53 seconds East, 94 feet 10 7/8 inches to a point on the Northerly side of a 3 feet wide alley by deeds, which leads Eastwardly and Westwardly connecting at its Easterly end with a 5 feet wide alley by deeds, which leads Eastwardly; thence South 78 degrees 39 minutes East along the Northerly side of said 3 feet wide alley by deeds and passing through said 5 feet wide alley by deeds 74 feet 9 3/8 inches to a point in the bed of said 5 feet wide alley by deeds; thence North 6 degrees 56 minutes 53 seconds West, partly crossing said 5 feet wide alley by deeds 118 feet 4 5/8 inches to a point on the said Southerly side of South College Avenue; thence North 83 degrees 03 minutes 07 seconds East along the said Southerly side of South College Avenue 192 feet 0 inches to a point on the Westerly side of 19th Street (50 feet wide); thence South 11 degrees 21 minutes West along the said Westerly side of 19th Street 252 feet 8 1/8 inches to a point on the said Northerly side of Girard Avenue; thence North 78 degrees 39 minutes West along the said Northerly side of Girard Avenue 397 feet 8 3/4 inches to a point on the said Easterly side of 20th Street, being the first mentioned point and place of BEGINNING.

BEING the same premises acquired by the General State Authority (predecessor to the Pennsylvania Department of General Services) from the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia by deed, dated February 27, 1968, and recorded with the Philadelphia Recorder of Deeds at D-041-232.

(c) Easements.--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) Prohibited use.--Any conveyance authorized under this section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any other similar type of facility authorized under State law. The condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be binding upon the grantee, its successors and assigns. Should the grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the property authorized to be conveyed in this section to be used in violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert to and revest in the grantor.

(e) Deed.--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.--Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.

(g) Alternate disposition.--In the event that the Department of General Services and the grantee cannot reach a mutually acceptable agreement of sale within one year from the effective date of this section, the property may be disposed of in accordance with section 2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.