Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 471

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 1015

AN ACT APPROVING OF THE SALE, TRANSFER AND CONVEYANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 24.89 ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO THE SUN OIL COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WHEREAS, the State of Delaware holds title to a certain parcel of land herein described and situated in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, State of Delaware; and

WHEREAS, Sun Oil Company of Pennsylvania needs said parcel of land for the purpose of extension of dock facilities at Marcus Hook refinery; and

WHEREAS, said parcel of land is under the supervision and control of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; and

WHEREAS, Title 7, Section 4520(c), Delaware Code, requires that the legislature specifically approve the sale, transfer or conveyance of public lands; and

WHEREAS, the two tracts of land have been appraised by two (2) independent appraisers at $1,500 per acre.

NOW, THEREFORE:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. The sale, transfer and conveyance by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control of approximately 24.89 acres of public land is hereby authorized and approved by the members of the 127th General Assembly of the State of Delaware.

Section 2. The said two parcels of land herein authorized for sale, transfer and conveyance consist of approximately 8.86 acres on one site and 16.039 acres on the other site and classified as subaqueous land lying between bulkhead line and the pier head line in the Delaware River and extending from the Pennsylvania-Delaware State line southward to the riverward extension of the Sunolin Company property line at the south extremity of the Sunolin property.

Approved July 17, 1974.