Cambria County

Act 137 of 1998, § 3, under CONVEYANCE - VARIOUS COMMONWEALTH PROPERTIES.

Act 137 of 1998, § 3

Section 3. Cambria County.

(a) The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth to convey to the Cresson Area Historical Association for $1 the tract of land described in subsection (b).

(b) All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Cresson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point where the center of State Highway Route 22 (known as the William Penn Highway) intersects with the western boundary line of the property of Mary Thaw Thompson dividing the said property of Mary Thaw Thompson from that of the property of Mount Aloysius Academy; thence North by said Western boundary and dividing line 2 degrees 11 minutes East a distance of 795.5 feet to a point in the center line of State Highway Route No. 45 leading from Cresson to Loretto; thence along the said center line of said State Highway Route No. 45 South 21 degrees 58 minutes East a distance of 643.3 feet to a point in the center line of said Highway Route No. 45; thence along the center line of said State Highway Route No. 45 by an 8-degree curve to the left a distance of 325 feet to a point in the center line of said State Highway Route No. 45; thence south 25 degrees 31 minutes West a distance of 86.5 feet to a point in the center line of State Highway Route No. 22; thence north 73 degrees and no minutes West 258.3 feet to a point in the center line of said State Highway Route 22; and thence by the center line of State Highway Route No. 22 North 65 degrees 24 minutes West 181.1 feet to the place of beginning.

Containing 4.12 acres, more or less.

(c) The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause that the property conveyed "shall never be used for any purpose other than for a park" by the Cresson Area Historical Association, and, if at any time the Cresson Area Historical Association or its successor in function sells or transfers the property or permits the property to be used for any purpose other than those specified in this section, the title to the property shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth.

(d) The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.

(e) The deed of conveyance shall be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth.

(f) Costs and fees incidental to the conveyance shall be borne by the Grantee.