Bill Text: PA SB1510 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Governor, to grant and convey to the Erie Art Museum, certain lands situate in the City of Erie, Erie County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-23 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB1510 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1510-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2151
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1510 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY EARLL, MAY 2, 2012
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 2, 2012
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
and the Governor, to grant and convey to the Erie Art Museum,
certain lands situate in the City of Erie, Erie County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in City of Erie, Erie County, known as
Cashiers House.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission and the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Erie
Art Museum two tracts of land, including any improvements
located thereon, the property being known locally as the
Cashiers House, as described in subsection (b) for $1.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed
pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 0.15 acres,
including any improvements located thereon, more particularly
described as follows:
Parcel 1
ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land situate in the First Ward of
the City of Erie, Erie County, bounded and described as follows:
COMMENCING at a distance of 152 ½ feet from the Southeast
corner of Fourth and State Streets; thence along the East side
of State Street, South 27 degrees East, 30 feet to a point;
thence North 63 degrees East, 125 feet, more or less, to a brick
wall, being the West face of wall of a building and the East
Face of a building known as Woodruff Building herein conveyed;
thence North 27 degrees West, 30 feet to a point in the South
line of the property herein described; thence South 63 degrees
West 125 feet, more or less, to the East line of State Street,
the place of beginning.
BEING a part of In Lots Nos. 2585, 2586, 2587 and 2588.
Parcel 2
ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land situate in the First Ward of
the City of Erie, Erie County, being part of In Lots Nos. 2587
and 2588, bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point 82 ½ feet South of the South line of
Fourth Street in a line parallel with the East line of State
Street, and situate 125 feet Eastwardly from the East line of
said State Street; thence Eastwardly parallel with Fourth
Street, 30 feet to the West line of an alley 10 feet wide;
thence Southwardly along the West line of said alley and
parallel with State Street 100 feet; thence Westwardly parallel
with Fourth Street 30 feet; thence Northwardly parallel with
State Street 100 feet to the place of BEGINNING.
BOTH PARCELS BEING the same lands conveyed to the General
State Authority (predecessor to the Department of General
Services) by deed from the First National Bank of Erie, Receiver
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of the Erie Drug Company, dated July 17, 1963, and recorded in
the Erie County Recorder of Deeds Office in Deed Book 879, Page
265.
(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 restrictions.--Any conveyance authorized under this
act 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 State law. 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 act to be used in
violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert
to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Restrictive covenants.--The following restrictive
covenants shall be included in the deed of conveyance:
"Under and Subject to the condition that the buildings and
land conveyed herein shall be reasonably accessible to the
general public and maintained and preserved according to the
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and
Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings, as revised in
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1995. Should the grantee, its successors or assigns fail to
provide reasonable access to the general public, or fail to
maintain and preserve the property as set forth herein, the
title to the property will immediately revert to and revest in
the grantor.
Furthermore, the grantee shall ensure that any design for new
construction, rehabilitation, alteration or demolition work on
the property is compatible with its original architectural
design and landscape/site plan in terms of scale, massing,
fenestration, materials and color, and is consistent with the
recommended approaches in the Secretary of the Interior's
Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating
Historic Buildings, as revised in 1995.
No new construction, demolition, alteration, remodeling or
landscaping/site work shall be undertaken or permitted to be
undertaken on the property without the prior, written approval
of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, or its
successor, and signed by a duly authorized representative
thereof.
These covenants are binding on the grantee, its successors or
assigns in perpetuity."
(f) Execution of deed.--The deed of conveyance 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) Expiration of authority.--In the event that the
conveyance is not effectuated within one year of the effective
date of this section, the authority contained in this section
shall expire.
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Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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