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2000 Florida Code
TITLE XII MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 166 Municipalities  
PART IV EMINENT DOMAIN (ss. 166.401, 166.411)
166.401   Right of eminent domain.

166.401  Right of eminent domain.--

(1)  All municipalities in the state may exercise the right and power of eminent domain; that is, the right to appropriate property within the state, except state or federal property, for the uses or purposes authorized pursuant to this part. The absolute fee simple title to all property so taken and acquired shall vest in such municipal corporation unless the municipality seeks to condemn a particular right or estate in such property.

(2)  Each municipality is further authorized to exercise the eminent domain power granted to the Department of Transportation in s. 337.27(1) and the transportation corridor protection provisions of s. 337.273.

History.--s. 1, ch. 73-129; s. 5, ch. 88-168; s. 18, ch. 90-227; s. 63, ch. 99-385.

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