US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  5-320  Notice to file objections; objections; hearings. a. Upon the
  filing of the  tentative  decree  the  corporation  counsel  shall  give
  notice,  by  advertisement  in  the  City  Record, of the filing of such
  tentative decree and that the city and all other parties  interested  in
  such  proceedings,  or  in  any  of  the real property affected thereby,
  having an objection thereto, shall file  such  objections,  in  writing,
  duly  verified  in  the  manner  required by law for the verification of
  pleadings in an action, setting forth the real  property  owned  by  the
  objector,  and  such  objector's  post  office address, in the office in
  which the tentative decree was filed  within  fifteen  days  after  such
  publication  in  a  capital  project proceeding. Such notice shall be so
  published for a period of ten days  in  a  captial  project  proceeding.
  Similar  notice shall be given of the filing of any new, supplemental or
  amended tentative decree, and for the filing of objections thereto.  The
  notice  shall  further  state  that  the  corporation  counsel on a date
  specified in the notice will apply to the justice who made the tentative
  decree to fix a time when he or she  will  hear  the  parties  objecting
  thereto.
    b.  After  the  filing  of  the  tentative  decree  or  of any new, or
  supplemental, or amended tentative decree, no award for damages shall be
  diminished without notice to the owner of the real property affected  or
  the  owner's  attorney  appearing  in  the proceeding and an opportunity
  given for a hearing in regard thereto before signing the final decree.
    c. Every party objecting  to  the  tentative  decree  or  to  the  new
  supplemental  or  amended  tentative  decree  or  such party's attorney,
  within the time specified in the notice to file objections, shall  serve
  on the corporation counsel a copy of such verified objections.
    d.  Upon the application of the corporation counsel, the justice shall
  fix the time when he or she will  hear  the  parties  so  objecting  and
  desiring  to  be  heard. At the time so fixed the justice shall hear the
  person or persons who have objected to the tentative decree, or  to  the
  new,  supplemental  or  amended  tentative  decree, and who may then and
  there appear, and shall have the power to  adjourn  from  time  to  time
  until  all  parties who have filed objections and who desire to be heard
  shall have been fully heard.