Pennsylvania Statutes Title 32 P.S. Forests, Waters and State Parks § 928. Purchase or condemnation of lands

The Department of Forests and Waters  1 shall have power to acquire, by purchase or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, any outstanding private property right or interest in any lands within the area of the Pennsylvania State Park at Erie. The consideration or compensation and costs in connection with such acquisition shall be paid out of any appropriation to the Department of Forests and Waters for park purposes or to the Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission. The procedure in any case of eminent domain shall be as prescribed in the act, approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (Pamphlet Laws, nine hundred eighty-four), entitled “An act providing for the condemnation by the Commonwealth of lands suitable and desirable for forest purposes or game preserve purposes or the perpetuation and protection of fish and defining the powers and duties of the Department of Forestry; the Board of Game Commissioners, and the Department of Fisheries, respectively, in relation thereto.”  2