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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 42A - Condemnation Proceedings
Section 1 General Provisions
Section 42A-1-7 Purchase efforts waived or excused.
NM Stat § 42A-1-7 (2014) What's This?
42A-1-7. Purchase efforts waived or excused.
A condemnor's failure or inability to make reasonable and diligent efforts to acquire property by negotiation, make appraisals available pursuant to Subsection B of Section 42A-1-4 NMSA 1978 or appoint appraisers upon the request of the condemnee pursuant to Subsection A of Section 42A-1-5 NMSA 1978 does not bar the maintenance of a condemnation action in the manner authorized by law, notwithstanding timely objection, if :
A. compliance is waived by written agreement between the condemnee and the condemnor;
B. one or more of the condemnees of the property are unknown, cannot with reasonable diligence be contacted, are incapable of contracting and have no legal representative or own an interest which cannot be conveyed under the circumstances;
C. due to conditions not caused by or under the control of the condemnor, there is a compelling need on the part of the condemnor to avoid the delay in commencing the action which compliance would require;
D. the condemnee fails to provide any appraisals required pursuant to Subsection B of Section 42A-1-4 NMSA 1978; or
E. the appraisers provided for pursuant to Section 42A-1-5 NMSA 1978 fail to submit the appraisals to the parties within thirty days from the date that the jointly appointed appraiser was appointed.
History: 1978 Comp., 42A-1-5, enacted by Laws 1980, ch. 20, 7; amended and recompiled as 42A-1-7 by Laws 1981, ch. 125, 4.
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