Section 649 - Retirement of certain debt (Adm. Code Section 2419)(a) The General State Authority shall retire, as soon as the Governor's Budget Office certifies that funds to do so are available from the Commonwealth's appropriation for debt service in the General Fund Budget, the existing principal debt outstanding on General State Authority bonds which funded certain former Commonwealth projects on property described in subsection (c).(b) The payment directed in subsection (a) shall be deemed to satisfy the restriction contained in section 6 of the act of December 22, 1975 (P.L. 606, No. 175), entitled "An act authorizing and directing the Department of General Services, or such department and The General State Authority, to convey to Philadelphia or transfer jurisdiction within the State government of certain tracts of Commonwealth real property acquired under the act of September 29, 1938 (Sp.Sess., P.L. 53, No. 21), entitled, as amended, 'An act relating to institutions of counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions, for the care, maintenance, and treatment of mental patients; providing for the transfer to the Commonwealth for the care, maintenance and treatment of mental patients of such institutions, and all grounds, lands, buildings and personal property of such political subdivisions used for the care and maintenance of indigent persons connected with such mental institutions; providing for the management and operation or closing and abandonment thereof; and the maintenance of mental patients therein; including the collection of maintenance in certain cases; providing for the retransfer of certain property to counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions under certain circumstances; conferring and imposing upon the Governor, the Department of Welfare, the courts of common pleas and counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions certain powers and duties; prohibiting cities, counties, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions from maintaining and operating institutions, in whole or in part, for the care and treatment of mental patients; and repealing inconsistent laws,"" imposing powers and duties on the Department of Environmental Resources in connection with one such tract, and providing for use of land conveyed to the City of Philadelphia."(c) The Department of General Services and The General State Authority shall convey to the City of Philadelphia any remaining interest the Commonwealth may have in the property conveyed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through the Department of General Services, to the City of Philadelphia by deed dated November 15, 1983, recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia at Deed Book ALO Vol. 120, Page 405, which conveyance was subject to the restriction referenced in subsection (b).(d) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Commonwealth will fund the demolition of abandoned buildings formerly erected and maintained by the Commonwealth, which buildings are located on the property described in this section, through existing Commonwealth grant programs.1929, April 9, P.L. 177, art. XXIV, § 2419, added 1988, Oct. 25, P.L. 1059, No. 122, § 4, imd. effective.