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PRINTER'S NO. 1744
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1347
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY BROOKS, MAY 26, 2026
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 26, 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 the City of Hermitage,
formerly known as Hickory Township, Mercer County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance to the City of Hermitage, certain lands
situate in the City of Hermitage, formerly known as
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 the City of
Hermitage, formerly known as 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 under
subsection (a) consists of approximately 7.92 acres and
improvements thereon, being the former Hermitage Pennsylvania
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National Guard Readiness Center, described as follows:
All that certain portion or piece of land situate in the
Township of Hickory, County of Mercer and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point in the center line of Pennsylvania
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
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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) Covenants, conditions, easements and restrictions.--
(1) 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 any
lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third
persons appearing of record, for any portion of the land or
improvements erected thereon.
(2) 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.
(3) The Department of General Services is 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.
(d) Restriction.--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
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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) Deed of conveyance.--The conveyance shall be made by a
special warranty deed to be executed by the Secretary of General
Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(f) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(g) Alternate disposition.--In the event that this
conveyance is not executed within 24 months after the effective
date of this subsection, the property may be disposed of by a
competitive bidding process in accordance with section 2405-A of
the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
Administrative Code of 1929, as amended, except that no property
disposition plan shall be required.
(h) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the conveyance authorized
by this section shall be deposited into the State Armory Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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