Section 2. Land in the City of Scranton, Lackawanna County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Scranton School District, or its successors or assigns, certain lands together with any buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, for $128,000 and under terms and conditions to be established in an agreement of sale.
(b) Description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) consists of two tracts of land containing approximately 1.66 acres of land and improvements located thereon, bounded and more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Tract 1
ALL THAT CERTAIN piece or parcel of land situate in the Tenth Ward of the City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, known and designated as Lots numbers nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), and twenty-four (24), in Block number 193, according to the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company's plot of lots in the City of Scranton duly recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Lackawanna County in Map Book 2, pages 14 and 15. Said lots being each Forty Feet (40') in width in front on Arthur Avenue and Forty Feet (40') in width in the rear, and One Hundred Fifty Feet (150') in depth. Together with the privilege of using Ten Feet (10') in front on the side line of Lot number 23 on Gibson Street for yard, vault, porch, piazza, bay-window and cellarway, but for no other purpose. Being also known as Lots no. thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), and eighteen (18) in block number 44, according to the assessment map of the Tenth Ward of the City of Scranton.
BEING the same premises conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from T. Linus Hoban and Genevieve Hoban, his wife, by deed, dated June 28, 1956, and recorded in Lackawanna County in Deed Book 539, Page 218.
Tract 2
ALL THAT CERTAIN piece or parcel of land situate in the Tenth Ward of the City of Scranton, County of Lackawanna, bounded and described as follows:
BEING known and designated as Lots No. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, in Block No. 193, according to the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company's Plot of Lots in the City of Scranton, duly recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Lackawanna County in Map Book 2, pages 14 and 15. Said lots being each 40 feet in width in front on Colfax Avenue and 40 feet in width in the rear, and 150 feet in depth, together with the privilege of using 10 feet in front of the front line on said Colfax Avenue and 10 feet in front of the side line of Lot No. 12 on Gibson Street for yard, vault, porch, plaza, bay window and cellarway, but for no other purpose.
BEING the same premises conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the Scranton City Guard Association by deed dated April 18, 1968 and recorded in the Office of Recorder of Deeds of Lackawanna County in Deed Book 655, Page 370.
(c) Oil, gas and mineral rights.--The oil, gas and mineral rights shall be retained by the Department of General Services, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and may be leased by the Department of General Services in accordance with the authority granted in the act of October 8, 2012 (P.L.1194, No.147), known as the Indigenous Mineral Resources Development Act.
(d) Easements.--This 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.
(e) Prohibited use.--This conveyance 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, its successors and assigns. Should the grantee, its successors or assigns, 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.
(f) 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.
(g) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(h) Deposit of proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in the State Treasury Armory Fund.
(i) Alternate disposition.--In the event that this conveyance is not executed per the terms and conditions as established in the agreement of sale, with the Department of General Services, the property may be disposed of by competitive bid.