KINZUA BRIDGE STATE PARK - LAND ACQUISITION
Act of Aug. 12, 1963, P.L. 658, No. 343
AN ACT
Providing for the acquisition by the Department of Forests and
Waters of the Kinzua Bridge and certain adjoining grounds for
a State park, and making an appropriation.
Compiler's Note: Section 303(b) of Act 18 of 1995, which
created the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental
Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection,
provided that the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources shall exercise the powers and duties conferred
upon the Department of Forests and Waters by Act 343 of
1963.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Department of Forests and Waters is hereby
authorized to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation
proceedings, the Kinzua Bridge and such adjoining grounds in
McKean County, Pennsylvania, as the Secretary of Forests and
Waters may deem necessary.
The bridge and grounds shall be preserved and maintained as a
State park and be known as the Kinzua Bridge State Park.
Section 2. The title of the real estate shall be taken in
the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and shall, before
its acquisition, be approved by the Department of Justice.
Section 3. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or
as much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
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