Conveyance in Allentown and Salisbury Township, Lehigh County

Act 119 of 2004, § 2, under CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY, BOROUGH OF FORTY FORT, LUZERNE COUNTY; CITY OF ALLENTOWN AND SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY; UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY; MAKING A REPEAL.

Act 119 of 2004, § 2

Section 2. Conveyance in Allentown and Salisbury Township, Lehigh 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, at a price to be determined through competitive bidding or public auction, certain land together with any improvements thereon described in subsection (b). The tracts may be offered for sale together or separately.

(b) Description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to this section consists of two tracts of land bounded and described as follows:

TRACT 1

ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land together with any improvements thereon situate in the Twelfth Ward of the City of Allentown bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING at a point, said point being north 89 degrees 44 minutes east, 235.00 feet from the center line of Lehigh Street, or State Highway Route 158 at Station 522-80.70; thence along property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, north 89 degrees 44 minutes east, a distance of 300.00 feet to an iron pin; thence along property now or late of Edward N. Kroninger, Jr., et.al., south 00 degrees 16 minutes east, a distance of 119.06 feet to the center line of Vultee Street, thence along the center line of Vultee Street, south 74 degrees 59 minutes west, a distance of 310.22 feet to a point in the center line of Vultee Street; thence along property now or late of Edward N. Kroninger, Jr., et.al, north 00 degrees 16 minutes west, a distance of 198.4 feet to the place of BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 4.2471-acres, more or less.

BEING the same property conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by an Indenture from Bertha M. Kroninger, widow, and Richard P. Kroninger, executors of the last will and testament of Edward N. Kroninger, Jr., dated April 29, 1964 and recorded in the Lehigh County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book Volume 1059, Page 328.

TRACT 2

ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land together with any improvements thereon situate in the Twelfth Ward of the City of Allentown and Salisbury Township described in a plot plan recorded in the Lehigh County Recorder of Deeds Office in Map Rack 5, Sheet 73 of 78.

CONTAINING 1.468-acres, more or less.

BEING the same property acquired by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a Notice of Condemnation dated August 25, 1986, recorded in the Lehigh County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book Volume 519, Page 1002.

(c) Easements.--The conveyances 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) Execution.--The deeds 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) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale of lands under this section shall be deposited into the Capital Facilities Fund. The funds shall be utilized by the Department of General Services to acquire and renovate or construct replacement facilities for the Department of Transportation's Engineering District 5-0. Any funds remaining following the acquisition and renovation or construction of replacement facilities shall be transferred to the General Fund.