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2022 SESSION
HB 459 Real property; entering adjoining property to improve, etc., petitioning circuit court.
Introduced by: Schuyler T. VanValkenburg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Providing access to adjoining property to make improvements or repairs. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property, and the property is so situated that it is impossible to perform the improvements, repairs, or maintenance without entering adjoining property and permission to enter the adjoining property has been denied, to petition the circuit court for a license to enter the adjoining property for the purpose of performing the improvements, repairs, or maintenance. The petition and affidavits, if any, shall state the facts making such entry necessary and the date or dates on which entry is sought. The bill provides that such license shall be granted by the court in an appropriate case upon such terms as justice requires. Any such entry shall not be deemed a trespass and the licensee shall be liable to the adjoining owner or his lessee for actual damages occurring as a result of the entry.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101887D pdf
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106246D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101887D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/01/22 House: Referred from General Laws by voice vote
- 02/01/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/04/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/07/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 5-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106246D-H1
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106246D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB459H1
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and defeated by House (48-Y 52-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 52-N)
- 02/15/22 House: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by House
- 02/15/22 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and defeated by House (50-Y 50-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Defeated #2 (50-Y 50-N)