For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASSOCIATION. A partnership, limited partnership, or any other form of unincorporated enterprise owned or conducted by two or more persons other than a private trust or decedent’s estate.
CORPORATION. A corporation, joint-stock association, business trust, or banking institution which is organized under the laws of this state, the United States, or any other state, territory, foreign county, or dependency.
DISTRICT. Summerhill Borough, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
DOCUMENT. Any deed, instrument, or writing which conveys, transfers, demises, vests, confirms, or evidences any transfer or demise of title to real estate, but does not include wills, mortgages, deeds of trust, or other instruments or like character given as security for a debt and deeds of release thereof to the debtor, land contracts whereby the legal title does not pass to the grantee until the total consideration specified in the contract has been paid or any cancellation thereof, unless the consideration is payable over a period of time exceeding 30 years or instruments which solely grant, vest, or confirm a public utility easement. DOCUMENT shall also include a declaration of acquisition required to be presented for recording under § 32.037.
MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY. Any individual, such individual’s brothers and sisters, the brothers and sisters of such individual’s parents and grandparents, the ancestors and lineal decedents of any of the foregoing, a spouse of any of the foregoing, and the estate of any of the foregoing. Individuals related by the half-blood or legal adoption shall be treated as if they were related by the whole-blood.
PERSON. Every natural person, association, or corporation. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing fine or imprisonment or both, the term PERSON as applied to associations, shall include the responsible members or general partners thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
REAL ESTATE.
(1) All lands, tenements, or hereditaments within this district, including, without limitation: buildings; structures; fixtures; mines; minerals; oil; gas; quarries; spaces with or without upper or lower boundaries; trees and other improvements; immovables or interests which by custom, usage, or law pass with a conveyance of land, but excluding permanently attached machinery and equipment in an industrial plant;
(2) Condominium unit; and
(3) A tenant-stockholder’s interest in a cooperative housing corporation, trust, or association under a proprietary lease or occupancy agreement.
TITLE TO REAL ESTATE.
(1) Any interest in real estate which endures for a period of time, the termination of which is not fixed or ascertained by a specific number of years, including, without limitation, an estate in fee simple, life estate, or perpetual leasehold; or
(2) Any interest in real estate enduring for a fixed period of years but which either, by reason of the length of the term or the grant of a right to extend the term by renewal or otherwise, consists of a group of rights approximating those of an estate in fee simple, life estate, or perpetual leasehold, including, without limitation, leasehold interest or possessory interest under a lease or occupancy agreement for a term of 30 years or more or a leasehold interest or possessory interest in real estate in which the lessee has equity.
TRANSACTION. The making, executing, delivering, accepting, or presenting for recording of a document.
(Res. 1-2006, passed 4-11-2006)