The commissioners shall, at the time fixed in the aforesaid notices, view the land sought to be condemned and assess the damages which the owner will sustain by reason of the appropriation; and they shall file their written report with the sheriff. At the request of the condemner or the condemnee, the commission shall divide the damages into parts to indicate the value of any dwelling, the value of the land and improvements other than a dwelling, and the value of any additional damages. The appraisement and return may be in parcels larger than forty acres belonging to one person and lying in one tract, unless the agent or attorney of the applicant, or the commissioners, have actual knowledge that the tract does not belong wholly to the person in whose name it appears of record; and in case of such knowledge, the appraisement shall be made of the different portions as they are known to be owned.
In assessing the damages the owner or tenant will sustain, the commissioners shall consider and make allowance for personal property which is damaged or destroyed or reduced in value.
In addition to all other damages provided by law, except moving expenses paid or required to be paid under relocation assistance programs, an owner or tenant occupying land which is proposed to be acquired by condemnation shall be awarded a sum sufficient to remove such owner's or tenant's personal property from the land to be acquired, which sum shall represent reasonable costs of moving said personal property from the said land to be acquired to a point no greater than twenty-five miles therefrom; but in any event, said damages for moving shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each owner or tenant occupying land so proposed to be condemned.
[C73, § 1249; C97, § 2004, 2029; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7835; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 472.14]
C93, § 6B.14
Referred to in § 316.2
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