SB343 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2015
Title: Eminent Domain, restricting the taking of property by eminent domain, Sec. 18-1B-2 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, there are limitations on condemnations.
This bill would further limit the condemnation of property if the primary use for the property is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development.
This bill would require each entity prior to initialing a condemnation procedure to define what is included in just compensation for the taking or damaging of property and it shall take only a portion of private property necessary for public use.
Subjects: Eminent Domain

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development