House Journal: Page 1603: Thursday, April 22, 1999

47   application for condemnation within thirty days of

48   receiving a request to review the condemnation
49   application.  A majority vote of the commission
50   members is necessary to approve or deny a condemnation
Page 2  
 1   application.  The sheriff shall notify the landowner
 2   and condemner of the commission's determination by
 3   certified mail.
 4     4.  A determination made by the compensation
 5   commission pursuant to this section shall be final
 6   unless appealed from.  An appeal must be filed with
 7   the district court within thirty days of mailing the
 8   commission's determination to the condemner and the
 9   landowner.  At the time of appeal, the appellant shall
10   give written notice that the appeal has been taken to
11   the adverse party, or the adverse party's agent or
12   attorney.  Notice of an appeal shall be served in the
13   same manner as an original notice.  The appeal shall
14   be docketed in the name of the person appealing and
15   all other interested parties to the action shall be
16   defendants.
17     5.  This section does not apply to condemnation of
18   agricultural land if the industry is an eligible
19   business under section 15.329 and the department of
20   economic development enters into an agreement under
21   section 15.330 with the industry.
22     6.  For purposes of this section, "industry" means
23   the same as defined in section 260E.2."
24      ___.  Page 8, line 22, by inserting after the word
25   "notices." the following:  "If a city or county, or an
26   agency of a city or county, is seeking to condemn
27   agricultural land for an industry as that term is
28   defined in section 260E.2, the notice shall inform the
29   landowner that the landowner may request that the
30   compensation commission review the application as
31   provided in section 6B.4A.""
32     4.  By striking page 1, line 25, through page 2,
33   line 13.
34     5.  Page 2, by inserting before line 14 the
35   following:
36     " ___.  Page 16, line 5, by inserting after the
37   word "to" the following:  "or benefiting"."
38     6.  Page 2, line 23, by inserting before the word
39   "land" the following:  "agricultural".
40     7.  Page 2, line 26, by inserting before the word
41   "land" the following:  "agricultural".
42     8.  Page 2, line 35, by striking the word "is" and
43   inserting the following:  "has been".
44     9.  Page 2, line 36, by inserting after the word
45   "commodities" the following:  "during three out of the

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