Bill Text: PA HB2615 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Department of Corrections and the Governor, to dedicate, grant and convey to the Frackville Area Municipal Authority, a waste water system and appurtenances, together with easements for public sewer purposes, situate in Ryan Township, Schuylkill County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-28 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2615 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2615-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4002
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2615 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY GOODMAN, JUNE 28, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 28, 2010
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Department of Corrections and the Governor,
to dedicate, grant and convey to the Frackville Area
Municipal Authority, a waste water system and appurtenances,
together with easements for public sewer purposes, situate in
Ryan Township, Schuylkill County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance to Frackville Area Municipal Authority in
Ryan Township, Schuylkill County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Department of Corrections and the Governor,
is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to dedicate, grant and convey to the Frackville
Area Municipality Authority, a waste water system, consisting of
approximately 2,500 linear feet of sewer line, head works, wet
well, control buildings, chemical feed system, duplex pump
station, approximately 400 linear feet of force main, and
appurtenances, together with such easements as may be necessary
for purposes of the operation, maintenance, repair and
replacement of the waste water system and appurtenances, over
through and in certain property constituting a portion of the
grounds of the State Correctional Institute - Frackville,
outside the security fence, for $1.00 and under terms and
conditions to be established by the parties.
(b) Easement.--Pursuant to subsection (a), the Department of
General Services is authorized to grant to the Frackville Area
Municipal Authority a permanent easement for access to,
operation, maintenance and repair of, the waste water system,
over, through and in the real property constituting a part of
the grounds of the State Correctional Institution - Frackville,
outside the security fence, being a portion of the real property
acquired by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to a deed
recorded at the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Schuylkill
County at Deed Book 1336, Page 128. The easement shall be more
particularly identified upon agreement of the parties and
preparation of a survey by a Pennsylvania licensed surveyor.
(c) Subject to rights of others.--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 all lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies
vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for
any portion of the land or improvement erected thereon.
(d) Execution.--The deed or other conveyance document
executed pursuant to this section shall be executed by the
Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
(e) Repair.--The deed or other conveyance document executed
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pursuant to this section shall contain a covenant requiring the
Frackville Area Municipal Authority to repair, to the
satisfaction of the Commonwealth, any damage to the easement
area caused by the Frackville Area Municipal Authority's
operation, maintenance, repair or replacement of the water
system and appurtenances.
(f) Costs, fees and expenses.--All costs, fees and expenses
incidental to the conveyances authorized under subsection (a),
including, but not limited to, surveying costs and any costs
resulting from alterations to the waste water system made
necessary as a result of this conveyance, shall be borne by the
Frackville Area Municipal Authority or Schuylkill County. The
Commonwealth shall not bear any costs, fees or expenses
associated with this conveyance.
(g) Nonconveyance.--In the event that the conveyance is not
executed within two years of the effective date of this section,
the authority contained in this section shall expire.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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