Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF2750

5E Relating to eminent domain; providing for a preemption; requiring eminent
domain to be used only for a public use or public purpose; specifying certain
exceptions for drainage, town roads, and watershed districts; defining public
use or purpose and certain other terms; providing for condemnation for blight
mitigation and contamination remediation under certain conditions; providing
owners with award of attorney and legal fees under certain conditions; modifying
certain appraisal and negotiation requirements for the acquisition of property
and regulating the use or consideration of appraisals in condemnation hearings;
requiring documentation for business loss claims; specifying local government
public hearing requirements; expanding certain petition notice requirements;
specifying an evidentiary standard; increasing certain appraisal fee limits;
requiring compensation for removal of legal nonconforming use, applicability
restriction; requiring compensation for loss of going concern and driveway
access unless condemning authority establishes certain facts; specifying certain
minimum compensation requirements for relocating owners; specifying certain
limitations; exempting public service corporations; providing for a right of
first refusal; clarifying a certain relocation assistance requirement; providing
for relocation assistance amount finality determination by administrative law
judge; specifying instructions to the revisor
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