CHAPTER 31-19

ACQUISITION OF LAND AND MATERIALS FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES

31-19-1    Right-of-way and borrow pit--Purchase or condemnation--Proceedings.

31-19-1.1    Acquisition of land to provide for relocation of utility lines and facilities displaced by highway project--Use--Rules.

31-19-1.2    Owner or operator of utility lines or facilities not required to relocate to acquired easement or fee interest in real estate.

31-19-2    Resolution of necessity--Recordation and filing.

31-19-3    Condemnation--Petition--Parties defendant--Contents of petition--Verification.

31-19-4    Pleadings necessary--Interpleader--Compensation only issue.

31-19-5    Omitted defendants--Amendment of petition.

31-19-6    Notice in register of deeds' office--Contents of notice--Effect of notice.

31-19-7    Summons to defendants--Contents--Time for response.

31-19-8    Service of summons--Unknown parties--Publication of summons.

31-19-9    Notice annexed to publication--Contents--Time of publication--Applicability of general rules respecting publication of summons.

31-19-10    Personal service on nonresident defendant.

31-19-10.1    Demand for hearing on question of necessity--Waiver of right to question--Finding of necessity as binding on all persons.

31-19-11    Defaulting defendants--Affidavit of default--Summoning jurors--Procedure for summoning.

31-19-12    Hearing at special term--Rights of defendants--Rules of civil procedure applicable.

31-19-13    Conduct of proceedings--Notice of trial.

31-19-14    Continuance respecting unserved defendants.

31-19-15    View of premises by jury.

31-19-16    Compensation ascertained by jury--Separate verdicts for separate tracts.

31-19-17    Benefits to defendant as affecting compensation.

31-19-18    Return of verdict--Recordation--Judgment--Deposit in favor of nonappearing defendants--Possession of land awarded to state.

31-19-19    Compensation paid out of state highway funds as part of cost of state trunk highway.

31-19-20    Purchase or condemnation of land outside right-of-way--Payment--Procedure.

31-19-20.1    Acquisition of easement or fee interest for relocation of utility line or facilities not evidence in chapter 21-35 action.

31-19-21    Procedure as cumulative--General condemnation rules not impaired.

31-19-22    31-19-22. Repealed by SL 2010, ch 145 § 109.

31-19-23    Procedure to effect immediate taking--Declaration of taking--Contents of declaration.

31-19-24    Title vesting in state or municipality--Right to compensation vesting in owner--Effective date.

31-19-25    Time for surrender of possession--Notice to nonappearing defendants--Order of possession--Notice and hearing--Power of court.

31-19-26    Service of declaration of taking--Registered or certified mail.

31-19-27    Parties omitted from declaration of taking--Amendment--Amendment as not deferring effect of declaration.

31-19-28    Court deposit of money required for taking--Expediting distribution of money.

31-19-29    Payment of moneys on deposit--Payment of additional moneys after award is made.

31-19-30    Payment to owner--Receipt by owner--Contents of receipt.

31-19-31    Priority of proceedings to determine just compensation.

31-19-32    Right to jury trial--Waiver--Placing cause on calendar without notice.

31-19-33    Trial on question of just compensation--Judgment--Interest on award--Interest on amounts already deposited in court.

31-19-34    Compensation exceeding amounts already distributed--Judgment for deficiency--Compensation for less than amount already distributed--Judgment against defendant.

31-19-35    Prohibition against abandoning condemnation proceeding.

31-19-36    Expenditure of public funds on condemned land before final judgment--Opinion of attorney general respecting title.

31-19-37    Stipulation by attorney general excluding parts of condemned property--Municipal attorney to act for municipality.

31-19-38    Appeal as not delaying proceeding.

31-19-39    31-19-39. Repealed by SL 2010, ch 145, § 110.

31-19-40    Procedure as cumulative.

31-19-41    31-19-41. Repealed by SL 2010, ch 145, § 111.

31-19-41.1    Uneconomic remnant from land acquisition by county or first or second class municipality.

31-19-42    Acquisition of fee ownership in real estate where uneconomic remnants of land would result or severance damages would be less economical.

31-19-43    Title to land.

31-19-44    Lease of non-right-of-way property.

31-19-45    Sale of non-right-of-way property.

31-19-46    Exchange of non-right-of-way property.

31-19-47    Owner's agreement with state relinquishing possession pending determination of damages--Interest pending payment of damages--Tender of payment.

31-19-48    Tender of estimated compensation--Landowner's rights unaffected by tender or acceptance.

31-19-49    Financial assistance to persons displaced by highway acquisition.

31-19-49.1    Financial assistance when federal funds are unavailable.

31-19-50    31-19-50 to 31-19-55. Repealed by SL 2014, ch 134, §§ 2 to 7.

31-19-56    31-19-56 to 31-19-59. Repealed by SL 1984, ch 207, §§ 57 to 60

31-19-60    Lands no longer needed--Reversion of condemned lands--Sale of lands acquired by gift, devise or purchase--Purchase by abutting landowner--Right of use by utility.

31-19-61    31-19-61, 31-19-62. Repealed by SL 1984, ch 207, §§ 61, 62

31-19-63    Transfer of right-of-way between state and political subdivisions.

31-19-63.1    Transfer of right-of-way to federal government or Indian tribe.

31-19-64    Order or resolution to transfer right-of-way--Conveyance--Effect.

31-19-65    Functional replacement of real property in public ownership.