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Senate Amendment 5019

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 2042 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 6A.4, Code 1997, is amended to
  1  5 read as follows:
  1  6    6A.4  RIGHT CONFERRED.
  1  7    1.  The right to take private property for public
  1  8 use is hereby conferred:
  1  9    1. a.  COUNTIES.  Upon all counties for public
  1 10 purposes which are reasonable and necessary as an
  1 11 incident to the powers and duties conferred upon
  1 12 counties.
  1 13    2. b.  OWNERS OF LAND WITHOUT A WAY TO THE LAND.
  1 14 Upon the owner or lessee of lands, which have no
  1 15 public or private way to the lands, for the purpose of
  1 16 providing a public way, not exceeding forty feet in
  1 17 width, which will connect with an existing public
  1 18 road.  The condemned public way shall be located on a
  1 19 division, subdivision or "forty" line, or immediately
  1 20 adjacent thereto, and along the line which is the
  1 21 nearest feasible route to an existing public road, or
  1 22 along a route established for a period of ten years or
  1 23 more by an easement of record or by use and travel to
  1 24 and from the property by the owner and the general
  1 25 public.  The public way shall not interfere with
  1 26 buildings, orchards, or cemeteries.  When passing
  1 27 through enclosed lands, the public way shall be fenced
  1 28 on both sides by the condemner upon request of the
  1 29 owner of the condemned land.  The condemner or the
  1 30 condemner's assignee, shall provide easement for
  1 31 access to the owner of property severed by the
  1 32 condemnation.  The public way shall be maintained by
  1 33 the condemner or the condemner's assignee, and shall
  1 34 not be considered any part of the primary or secondary
  1 35 road systems.
  1 36    A public way condemned under this subsection shall
  1 37 not be considered an existing public road in
  1 38 subsequent condemnations to provide a public way for
  1 39 access to an existing public road.
  1 40    3. c.  OWNERS OF MINERAL LANDS.  Upon all owners,
  1 41 lessees, or possessors of land, for a railway right of
  1 42 way thereto not exceeding one hundred feet in width
  1 43 and located wherever necessary or practical, when such
  1 44 lands have no railway thereto and contain coal, stone,
  1 45 gravel, lead, or other minerals and such railway is
  1 46 necessary in order to reach and operate any mine,
  1 47 quarry, or gravel bed on said land and transport the
  1 48 products thereof to market.  Such right of way shall
  1 49 not interfere with buildings, orchards, or cemeteries,
  1 50 and when passing through enclosed lands, fences shall
  2  1 be built and maintained on both sides thereof by the
  2  2 party condemning the land and by that party's
  2  3 assignees.  The jury, in the assessment of damages,
  2  4 shall consider the fact that a railway is to be
  2  5 constructed thereon.
  2  6    4. d.  CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS.  Upon any private
  2  7 cemetery or cemetery association which is incorporated
  2  8 under the laws of this state relating to corporations
  2  9 not for pecuniary profit, and having its cemetery
  2 10 located outside the limits of a city, for the purpose
  2 11 of acquiring necessary grounds for cemetery use or
  2 12 reasonable additions thereto.  The right granted in
  2 13 this subsection shall not be exercised until the board
  2 14 of supervisors, of the county in which the land sought
  2 15 to be condemned is located, has, on written
  2 16 application and hearing, on such reasonable notice to
  2 17 all interested parties as it may fix, found that the
  2 18 land, describing it, sought to be condemned, is
  2 19 necessary for cemetery purposes.  The association
  2 20 shall pay all costs attending such hearing.
  2 21    5. e.  SUBDISTRICTS OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
  2 22 DISTRICTS.  Upon a subdistrict of a soil and water
  2 23 conservation district for land or rights or interests
  2 24 in the land as reasonable and necessary to carry out
  2 25 the purposes of the subdistrict.
  2 26    6. f.  CITIES.  Upon all cities for public purposes
  2 27 which are reasonable and necessary as an incident to
  2 28 the powers and duties conferred upon cities.
  2 29    2.  "Public use" or "public purposes" does not
  2 30 include condemnation of private property by the state
  2 31 or a city or county or by an agency of the state or an
  2 32 agency of a city or county on behalf of a private,
  2 33 for-profit entity." 
  2 34 
  2 35 
  2 36                               
  2 37 JACK RIFE 
  2 38 SF 2042.502 77
  2 39 sc/jw/28
     

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