Section 5. Conveyance of land to Greene County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Greene County for one dollar approximately 1.82 acres of land, more or less, and a stone building known as the "Thomas Hughes House" as described in subsection (b).
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) consists of all that certain tracts or lots of land situate in the Township of Jefferson, County of Greene and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
ALL THOSE CERTAIN pieces, parcels or plots of land situate in the Township of Jefferson, County of Greene and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being all of Parcel No. 1- Containing 1.11 acres with improvements, Parcel No. 2- Lots No.5, 6, 7 and 8 containing 0.58 acres more or less and Parcel No. 7- Lot No.54, containing 0.13 acres more or less. Parcels and lots being shown on revised Hatfield Plan as recorded in Greene County Plan Book 1, at page 119 on August 24, 1946.
CONTAINING an area of 1.82 acres of land, more or less.
(c) Easements.--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) 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.
(e) Covenants.--The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause requiring the County of Greene and their successors to maintain and preserve the premises to ensure that any improvements to the property are compatible with its original architectural design and landscape/site plan in terms of scale, massing, fenestration, materials and color and are consistent with the recommended approaches in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. No new construction, excavation, ground disturbance, demolition, alteration, remodeling or landscaping/site work shall be undertaken or permitted to be undertaken on the property without prior written approval by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This clause shall run with the land.
(f) Other restrictions.--The deed of conveyance shall also contain a clause permitting Greene County to sell the property for fair market value as determined by an independent appraiser acceptable to the Commonwealth, with the proceeds, less Greene County's sales costs, sent to the Commonwealth.
(g) Fees and costs.--Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.