Conservation Tools

Act 44 of 2011, signed into law by Governor Corbett on July 7, amends the Agricultural Area Security Law to repeal the provision allowing for the extinguishment of agricultural conservation easements after 25 years.

The Pennsylvania Conservation and Preservation Easements Act, the act of June 22, 2001 (P.L. 390, No. 29) (32 P.S. §§5051-5059) was enacted in its final form as House Bill 975, PN 2294. It is Pennsylvania's enabling act for conservation easements (excluding agricultural conservation easements created under the Agricultural Area Security Law.

Pennsylvania's Act 93 of 2005 provides immunity from liability for particular equine activities under certain conditions.

Daniel B. Evans describes the recent history of the Pennsylvania Inheritance and Estate Tax Act as "rather confusing". The text of the act and his notes can be found at the evans-legal.com website.

The act standardizes the application of eligibility standards for charitable organization tax exemptions in Pennsylvania.

Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, which authorizes municipal use of the official map

Chapter 138e of the Pennsylvania Code addresses the state's Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program. It includes the rules for the Land Trust Reimbursement Grant Program.

Counties, townships and other municipal entities and instrumentalities can assert immunity under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act Users should confirm whether the Act has been recently updated before using the posted file or link.

Pennsylvania’s Rails-to-Trails Act (32 P.S. § 5611 ) provides for rail-trails acquired under the Act liability protection similar to that found in PA's Recreational Use of Land and Water Act. It also establishes within DCNR a program to acquire, operate, maintain and develop available railroad rights-of-way for public recreational trail use.

The purpose of the law is to supplement the availability of publicly owned parks and forests by encouraging landowners to allow hikers, fishermen and other recreational users onto their properties. The Recreational Use of Land and Water Act (“RULWA”), found in Purdon’s Pennsylvania Statutes, title 68, sections 477-1 et seq., creates that incentive by limiting the traditional duty of care that landowners owe to entrants upon their land. Scroll down the table of comments to "Title 68 P.S. Real and Personal Property", Chapter 11 to find the act.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can assert immunity under the Sovereign Immunity Act. Users should confirm whether the Act has been recently updated before using the posted file or link.

A major landslide in Kilbuck Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in September of 2006, demonstrates the disastrous consequences of failing to protect the municipality’s steep slopes from disturbance. This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Joint State Government Commission's Task Force on the Kilbuck Township Landslide. which conducted an in-depth investigation into the landslide.