Conveyance in Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County

Act 61 of 2019, § 3, under CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MULTIPLE TOWNSHIPS AND COUNTIES.

Act 61 of 2019, § 3

Section 3. Conveyance in Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County.

(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania of the State System of Higher Education and the Governor, is authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council a permanent easement from lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania situate in Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a parking lot for the benefit of the general public utilizing the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail for $1 and under terms and conditions to be established in an easement agreement.

(b) Property description.--The permanent easement to be conveyed under subsection (a) consists of approximately 4,352 square feet of land, bounded and more particularly described as follows:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate on the north side of Fort Street within the lands now or formerly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General Services (Shippensburg University) in Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and being more fully described as follows:

BEGINNING at a concrete monument on the northern right-of-way line of Fort Street where it is intersected by the eastern boundary line of lands of Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council; thence along said boundary line N 06º35'32" E a distance of 165.48 feet to a point; thence extending through lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General Services (Shippensburg University) S 88º41'17" E a distance of 23.03 feet to a point; thence continuing through same S 03º09'10" W a distance of 149.06 feet to a point on the northern right-of-way line of Fort Street; thence along said right-of-way line S 66º02'54" W a distance of 37.01 feet to a concrete monument, the point of BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 4,352 square feet.

(c) Easement agreement.--The easement agreement and any other documents necessary to effectuate the conveyance under this section shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(d) Restrictive covenants.--The easement agreement shall contain a provision that the easement shall be utilized by the grantee, its successors or assigns, solely for the purposes of establishing and maintaining a parking lot for the benefit of the general public utilizing the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail and for no other purpose. Should the easement not be utilized for the purposes specified in this section, the easement shall automatically be extinguished.

(e) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to the conveyance under this section shall be borne by the grantee.

(f) Expiration.--In the event that the parties have not entered into an easement agreement within two years of the effective date of this section, the authorization contained in this section shall expire.