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SB 63 Uniform Relocation Assistance Act.

Introduced by: Madison E. Marye | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Uniform Relocation Assistance Act. Makes the provisions of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1972 applicable to any (i) state agency; (ii) political subdivision; (iii) department, agency or instrumentality of any political subdivision; (iv) person who has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain under state law; or (v) two or more of the aforementioned, which carries out a project that causes people to be displaced. The Act currently applies to such entities if they are carrying out projects with federal or state financial assistance. The Act requires condemnors to, among other things, (i) make relocation payments to displaced persons; (ii) make every reasonable effort to acquire expeditiously real property by negotiation; (iii) appraise the property; (iv) offer to acquire the property for an amount not less than its appraised value; (v) give at least 90 days' written notice of the date by which the occupant is required to vacate the condemned property; and (vi) offer to acquire the entire property if the acquisition of part of a property would leave its owner with an uneconomic remnant. The bill also raises the $10,000 cap on payments for business relocation expenses to $25,000 for the condemnee's reasonable expenses necessarily incurred in reestablishing the displaced business or farm at its new site, in accordance with criteria established by the condemnor. The existing cap on payments for the dislocation of a business or farm, in lieu of actual relocation expenses, is raised from $20,000 to $50,000. An appraisal is not required for property acquired by a locality, public service corporation or municipal corporation if the assessment is less than $10,000. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the joint subcommittee studying eminent domain issues.


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