Section 1. Conveyance in Antrim Township.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Kittochtinny Historical Society, Inc., certain land and buildings described in subsection (b) for fair market value as determined by independent appraisal in accordance with an Agreement of Sale dated February 16, 2001.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to this section consists of approximately 0.24 acres and a stone one-room schoolhouse, bounded and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin at the intersection of a public road with the public road leading to Kauffman's Station; thence along line in the first mentioned public road north 45 degrees east 50 feet to an iron pin; thence along lands now or formerly of the School district of Antrim Township south 47 degrees east 143.4 feet to a post; thence along lands of the Old Brown's Mill grave yard south 67 degrees west 125.4 feet to a point in the said road leading to Kauffman's Station; thence along line in said road north 13.25 degrees west 115.5 feet to an iron pin the place of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 0.24 acres more or less.
AND BEING the same land conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by deed of the Old Brown's Mill School Memorial Association, dated September 17, 1962, and recorded in Franklin County, Deed Book Volume 566 at page 131.
(c) Conditions of conveyance.--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) Restrictive clauses of deed.--The deed of conveyance shall contain the following restrictive clauses:
(1) UNDER AND SUBJECT to the condition that the lands
conveyed herein shall be used for historical
exhibition/public purposes only. Should the Grantee allow the
lands conveyed to be used for any other purpose, or attempts
to convey the Premises, title shall immediately revert to and
revest in the Grantor. However, the Grantor and Grantee, or
their successors and assigns, agree that should the within
named Grantee, or its successors, dissolve or cease to remain
in existence, then the Grantee, or its successors, may allow
title to the above-described real estate to be conveyed to a
successor organization that has the same objectives, purposes
and goals as the Grantee, said conveyance to be subject to
the other covenants and restrictions set forth in this deed.
(2) UNDER AND SUBJECT to the condition that the Grantee
shall ensure that any design for new construction,
rehabilitation, alteration or demolition work on the property
is compatible with its original architectural design and
landscape/site plan in terms of scale, massing, fenestration,
materials and color and is consistent with the recommended
approaches in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for
Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic
Buildings as revised in 1995. Further, no new construction,
demolition, alteration, remodeling or landscaping/site work
shall be undertaken or permitted to be undertaken on the
property without the prior written approval of the PA
Historical and Museum Commission and signed by a duly
authorized representative thereof.
(e) Execution of 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 and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the Grantee.
(g) Time period for conveyance.--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 Article 2406-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.