Section 1. (a) The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, are hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey for consideration equal to the fair market value as determined by an independent appraiser the tract of land bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the southerly side of Maiden Street, at line of land conveyed by the party of the first part hereto to Laura A. Halpin, by deed recorded in the Recorder's Office of Washington County in Deed Book Vol. 281, Page 261; thence southwardly along said lot of Laura A. Halpin, 240 feet, more or less, to land of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; thence westwardly along lands of said Railroad Company, 70 feet, more or less, to line of land now or late of Phillips heirs; thence northwardly along said land of Phillips heirs, 240 feet, more or less, to the southerly line of Maiden Street; and thence eastwardly along the southerly side of Maiden Street, 70 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.
And being the same lot of land conveyed unto the Commonwealth by Harriet S. Baird, by deed dated August 3, 1915, of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Washington County in Deed Book Vol. 427, Page 477.
(b) 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 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.
(c) The proceeds of this sale shall be paid into the State Treasury and deposited in the State Treasury Armory Fund.
(d) 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 of Pennsylvania.
(e) In the event this property is not conveyed to Joseph Pintola within 12 months of the effective date of this act, at the discretion of the Secretary of General Services, the property shall be offered for sale through auction, sealed bid or request for proposal, under terms and conditions in section 2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, and this section authorizing the sale of the herein-noted property to Joseph Pintola shall expire and become null and void.
(f) Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the Grantee.