Pennsylvania HB 2606: An Act amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, providing for Congressional district standards.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3529
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2606
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY WENTLING, JUNE 4, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 5, 2026
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to the City of
Hermitage, certain lands situate in Hickory Township, Mercer
County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Hickory Township, Mercer County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the City
of Hermitage certain land and buildings situate in Hickory
Township, Mercer County, for the fair market value of $920,000,
on terms to be established in an agreement of sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed
pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 7.92 acres
and improvements thereon, being the former Hermitage
Pennsylvania National Guard Readiness Center, bounded and more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the center line of Pennsylvania
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Highway Route No. 18, which point is at the northwest corner of
property to be conveyed to the Hickory Township School District;
thence along the center line of said highway north four degrees
five minutes east (N 4° 5' E), a distance of three hundred (300)
feet to a point; thence south eighty-seven degrees three and
one-half minutes east (S 87° 3½' E) along land now or formerly
of the Estate of J. R. Wishart, deceased, a distance of eleven
hundred (1150) feet to a point; thence south four degrees five
minutes west (S 4° 5' W) along land now or formerly of J. R.
Wishart, deceased, a distance of three hundred (300) feet to a
point on the northern boundary of land to be conveyed to the
Hickory Township School District; thence along the northern
boundary of said land to be conveyed to the Hickory Township
School District north eighty-seven degrees three and one-half
minutes west (N 87° 3½' W), a distance of eleven hundred fifty
(1150) feet to a point on the center line of the aforesaid
highway and the place of beginning, containing a volume of three
hundred forty-five thousand (345,000) square feet of land.
BEING the same property conveyed to the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by deed of Archie Wishart and Blanche M. Wishart,
executors of the Estate of J. Russell Wishart, deceased, Blanche
M. Wishart, widow, Archie M. Wishart and Helen C. Wishart,
husband and wife, Jessie W. Hutcheson and John A. Hutcheson,
wife and husband, and Archie Wishart, Attorney-in-fact for Mary
Wishart Thompson and Erich Thompson, wife and husband, dated
September 15, 1955, and recorded on October 10, 1955, in Mercer
County Deed Book "E", Volume 21, page 386.
CONTAINING 7.92 acres, more or less.
(c) Subject to certain matters.--The conveyance shall be
made under and subject to all lawful and enforceable easements,
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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) Prohibited use.--Any conveyance authorized under this
section 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 section to be used in
violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert
to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Covenants, conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary
of General Services may include in the deed of conveyance any
covenants, conditions or restrictions on the property as
determined to be in the best interests of the Commonwealth.
(f) Easements.--The Department of General Services is hereby
authorized, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
grant any easements benefiting the property to be conveyed, or
to retain any easements from the property to be conveyed, as the
Secretary of General Services shall determine to be necessary or
appropriate.
(g) Deed.--The conveyance shall be made by a special
warranty deed to be executed by the Secretary of General
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