Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 3946.3. Definitions

(1) “Recreation and historical purposes” means any use of land for public park, fishing, hunting, boating, open space purposes or scenic sights or preservation of sites of historical significance, or for any related public outdoor recreation or historical purpose.

(2) “Conservation purposes” means any use of land for water supply, flood control, water quality control development, soil erosion control, reforestation, wild life reserves or any other uses that will maintain, improve or develop the natural environment of soil, water, air, minerals or wild life of this Commonwealth so as to assure their optimum use.

(3) “Lands” means real property, including improvements thereof or thereon, rights of way, water, riparian, and other rights, easements, privileges, and any other physical property or rights or interests of any kind or description relating to or connected with real property.

(4) “Political subdivision” means any county, city, borough, town or township of the Commonwealth, or any official agency created by the foregoing units of government under the laws of the Commonwealth;  Provided, That any of the actions of such official agency taken under the authority of this act must be first approved by the participating local governing bodies in such agency.

(5) “Acquisition county” means any county of the Commonwealth in which, at the time of the effective date of this act, public ownership of land for outdoor recreation purposes is less than ten per cent of the total land area or where, at the time of the effective date of this act, there is an urban area of more than twenty-five thousand individuals.  The following counties are represented in this definition:  Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Chester, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Montgomery, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Somerset, Susquehanna, Venango, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, Wyoming and York.

(6) “Development county” means any county of the Commonwealth in which, at the time of the effective date of this act, public ownership of land for outdoor recreation purposes is more than ten per cent of the total land area or where, at the time of the effective date of this act, there is not an urban area of twenty-five thousand individuals.  The following counties are represented in this definition:  Bedford, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Jefferson, Juniata, McKean, Mifflin, Monroe, Perry, Pike, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union and Warren.

(7) “Administrative expenses” means any expenditures of funds other than for the purchase price of acquisition of land required to accomplish the purpose of this act including, but not limited to, expenditures of the Commonwealth agencies for their engineering, legal, appraisal, administrative and investigative services, interest payable on or before July 1, 1965, on notes or bonds issued pursuant to this act, and all expenses connected with borrowings under this act.