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PRINTER'S NO. 3530
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2607
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY DELOZIER, JUNE 4, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 5, 2026
AN ACT
Authorizing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
with the approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to
Friends of Peace Church, a Pennsylvania nonprofit
corporation, certain lands and improvements known as Peace
Church situate in Hampden Township, Cumberland County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Hampden Township, Cumberland County.
(a) Authorization for conveyance.--The Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission, with the approval of the
Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Friends of Peace Church, a
Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, the following tract of land,
together with any improvements thereon, known as the Peace
Church, situate in Hampden Township, Cumberland County, for $1,
on terms and conditions to be established in an agreement of
sale.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
subsection (a) consists of the following:
ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land situate in Hampden Township,
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County of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at a nail located at the intersection of the center
lines of L.R. 21079, known as St. John's Road, and L.R. 507,
known as Trindle Road; thence south 64 degrees 57 minutes 30
seconds west 88.04 feet to a point; by an arc to the right with
a radius of 22,918.31 feet a distance of 84.37 feet along the
center line of Trindle Road to a nail; thence north 27 degrees
27 minutes 30 seconds west 116.71 feet to a nail; thence north
26 degrees 39 minutes 00 seconds west 273.15 feet parallel to a
stone wall to an iron pin; thence north 69 degrees 23 minutes 30
seconds east a distance of 78.90 feet to a nail in the center
line of St. John's Road; thence by an arc along the center lien
of St. John's Road with a radius of 1,910.08 feet a distance of
144.44 feet to a nail; thence south 39 degrees 45 minutes 30
seconds east 325.75 feet to the place of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 1.135-acres of land, more or less.
Having erected thereon a two-story stone church building
known as Peace Church, or sometimes designated as the German
Reformed Church of Peace of Hampden Township, and other
improvements.
BEING the same property conveyed to the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, acting through the Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, by deed from The Penn Central Conference of
the United Church of Christ, Inc., and St. John's Lutheran
Church, Inc., dated August 18, 1969, and recorded in the Office
of the Recorder of Deeds of the County of Cumberland at Deed
Book K23, Pages 258-264.
(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) Covenants, conditions and restrictions.--The
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission may include in the
deed of conveyance any covenants, conditions or restrictions on
the property, including a right of reversion, as it deems to be
in the best interests of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(e) Easements.--The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission 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 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission shall determine to be necessary or appropriate.
(f) Deed.--The conveyance shall be made by special warranty
deed to be executed by the Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 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. The conveyance under
this section shall be exempt from the realty transfer tax
established under Article XI-C of the act of March 4, 1971
(P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971.
(h) Expiration.--If the conveyance authorized herein is not
completed within two years after the effective date of this
subsection, the authority contained herein shall expire.
Section 2. Effective date.
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This act shall take effect immediately.
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