PRINTER'S NO. 155
No. 160 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY HOLL, JANUARY 21, 1997
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 21, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 disposition of surplus Commonwealth lands acquired by
22 condemnation.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 2403-A of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
27 added July 1, 1981 (P.L.143, No.48), is amended to read:
1 Section 2403-A. Property Disposition Plan.--(a) The
2 department shall annually develop a plan for the orderly
3 disposition of all real property deemed surplus by the agency
4 currently in possession of the property, which property is not
5 suitable for use by another agency.
6 (b) The plan shall consider the following factors in
7 proposing the manner and schedule for property disposition:
8 (1) Whether the property should be leased, transferred in
9 fee simple, or transferred with a restriction as to use, right
10 of reversion, or other special deed provisions.
11 (2) Whether the land should be retained in agricultural use
12 or as open space for recreation or conservation. A determination
13 whether land should be preserved as open space or in
14 agricultural use shall be made in consultation with the
15 Department of Agriculture, the Department of Environmental
16 Resources and the Department of Community Affairs.
17 (3) Likely cost savings and expenses to the Commonwealth
18 arising from the proposed property disposition.
19 (4) The needs of local governments, charitable institutions,
20 and local volunteer fire and rescue squads.
21 (5) The likely revenue to be generated by the sale of the
22 property and the needs of the Commonwealth for those revenues.
23 (c) The plan for the disposition of surplus property shall,
24 for each parcel, identify the proposed manner of disposition,
25 when the property will be disposed of, likely revenues and
26 costs, the assessed market value of the property, and the
27 Commonwealth's acquisition cost for the property.
28 [(d) Any Commonwealth lands acquired by condemnation which
29 is later determined to be surplus land shall be disposed
30 pursuant to and consistent with the provisions of section
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1 2003(e) and the provisions of the act of June 22, 1964
2 (Sp.Sess., P.L.84, No.6) known as the "Eminent Domain Code."]
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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