HB459 Alabama 2017 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Eminent domain proceedings, costs, condemnation proceedings filed by Dept. of Transportation, the department pays condemnee's reasonable attorney fees, appraisal and engineering costs if final award is 20 percent or higher than department's offer, Sec. 18-1A-293 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that where the Department of Transportation files a condemnation action to condemn property pursuant to eminent domain and the final condemnation award, excluding interest, exceeds the department's last written offer to the condemnee by more than 20 percent, the department must pay the condemnee's reasonable attorney, appraisal, and engineering fees</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 18-1A-293 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to certain costs in eminent domain condemnation proceedings; to provide that in a condemnation action filed by the Department of Transportation, the department shall reimburse the reasonable attorney, appraisal, and engineering fees of a condemnee whose final probate or circuit court-ordered compensation, excluding interest, exceeds the department's last written offer to the condemnee by 20 percent. </p>

Subjects

Eminent Domain