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2010 Tennessee Code
Title 29 - Remedies And Special Proceedings
Chapter 17 - Eminent Domain by Public Agencies
Part 1 - Power and Use of Eminent Domain General Provisions
29-17-101 - Legislative intent.
29-17-101. Legislative intent.
It is the intent of the general assembly that the power of eminent domain shall be used sparingly, and that laws permitting the use of eminent domain shall be narrowly construed so as not to enlarge, by inference or inadvertently, the power of eminent domain.
[Acts 2006, ch. 863, § 1.]
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