80.150 Condemnation authorized -- Procedure.
If it becomes necessary to condemn property for the purpose of constructing any housing
that an authority may be permitted to acquire, establish, and operate under KRS
80.020(1), or securing rights of way leading thereto, the authority may, by resolution
reciting the need, order the condemnation of any land or improvement or interest in land,
that it deems necessary. Proceedings for the condemnation shall be in the Circuit Court of
the county in which the property lies, and shall be conducted in the name of the authority.
The city attorney shall conduct the proceedings for the authority. The judgment of the
court shall vest title in fee simple to the property condemned in the authority. In all other
respects the form and manner of the proceedings shall be the same as that provided in the
Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky. No payment or award in any condemnation
proceedings, or for the cost or expense of the proceedings, shall be made except from
funds provided under the authority of this chapter.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 237, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts
ch. 140, sec. 27. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 160, sec. 2, effective June 19, 1958. - Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 34. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208,
sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 927a-6, 2741x-6.
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