Conveyance in City of Meadville, Crawford County

Act 20 of 2010, § 2, under CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN OIL CITY, VENANGO COUNTY.

Act 20 of 2010, § 2

Section 2. Conveyance in City of Meadville, Crawford County.

(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey the following tract of land together with any buildings, structures or improvements on the land, situate in the First Ward of the City of Meadville, Crawford County. The Department of General Services shall sell the property using, in its discretion, either an invitation for sealed bids or a public auction.

(b) Description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 0.3297 acres and a building bounded and more particularly described as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situate in the First Ward of the City of Meadville, County of Crawford, Pennsylvania, being part of Lots Number One Hundred Five and One Hundred Six (#105 and #106) in the original plan of Meadville as laid out by David Mead, more particularly bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING, at the Northeast corner of Center Street and Diamond Park; thence along the Westerly line of Diamond Park in a Southerly direction a distance of ninety-three and five tenths (93.5) feet to line of lot formerly of Mrs. Harriet D. McNulty, now Rose G. Lippitt; thence in a Westerly direction by a line parallel with Center Street, a distance of one hundred fifty (150) feet to a point in said Lippitt's line; thence in a Northerly direction by other lands of R. Bruce Gamble and E. Lowry Humes and parallel with Diamond Park, a distance of ninety-three and five tenths (93.5) feet to the Southerly line of Center Street; thence by said line of Center Street in an Easterly direction a distance of one hundred fifty (150) feet to the corner of Center Street and Diamond Park, the place of BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 0.3297-acres more or less.

BEING the same premises conveyed by R. Bruce Gamble and Nella M. Gamble, his wife, and E. Lowry Humes and Mary E. Humes, his wife, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by deed dated February 7, 1912 and recorded in the Recorder's Office of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Volume 195, Page 11.

(c) Conditions.--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) Restriction.--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 the laws of this Commonwealth. The condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be binding upon the grantee and its successors. Should the grantee or its successors 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) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in the State Treasury Armory Fund.