Bill Text: PA HB2308 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In particular rights and immunities, providing for actions to quiet title involving subsurface rights.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-05 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB2308 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2308-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3363
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2308 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY EVERETT, CREIGHTON, GEIST, GODSHALL, HARPER, HORNAMAN, F. KELLER, METZGAR, PICKETT, PYLE, SONNEY AND SWANGER, APRIL 5, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 5, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and
immunities, providing for actions to quiet title involving
subsurface rights.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 8320.1. Actions to quiet title involving subsurface rights.
(a) Rebuttable presumption.--In an action to quiet title
involving subsurface rights to real property, failure by any
person claiming to hold the subsurface rights, other than the
surface owner of the real property, to exercise the subsurface
rights for a period in excess of 50 years shall create a
rebuttable presumption that the subsurface rights have been
abandoned by such person in favor of the surface owner.
(b) Definition.--As used in this section, "subsurface
rights" means mineral, oil or gas rights, or any combination of
those rights.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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