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ACT No. 464
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 1150 (Substitute for House Bill No. 1122 by Representative L. Harris)
BY REPRESENTATIVE LANCE HARRIS
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 48:221(A)(2), relative to property acquired by the Department
3 of Transportation and Development; to provide relative to the method by which the
4 Department of Transportation and Development disposes of certain property; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 48:221(A)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง221. Acquisition of balance of land in certain cases; disposition; exchange; excess
9 property
10 A.
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12 (2)(a) When the department has acquired property in excess of the width or
13 area required for departmental purposes or determines that certain property is no
14 longer needed for its purposes, such property may be sold to the highest bidder after
15 advertisement for bids twice within a thirty-day period provided the final
16 advertisement appears at least fifteen days prior to sale in the official journal of the
17 parish in which the property is located. However, the secretary shall offer to sell
18 such property at a private sale to the vendor or said the vendor's successors in title
19 who sold such property to the department upon payment of its present appraised
20 market value. However, the secretary shall first offer to sell such property to the said
21 vendor's successors in title, or to the owner of the land whose property or any portion
22 thereof is separated from a highway by such excess area, upon payment of the
23 present appraised market value.
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1 (b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when the
2 department has amicably acquired property that was identified as an uneconomic
3 remainder at the time of acquisition, there shall be no obligation to offer such
4 property at private sale to the vendor or the vendor's successors in title. This
5 Subparagraph shall apply only to property amicably acquired subsequent to July 1,
6 2016.
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8 Section 2. This Act shall become effective July 1, 2016.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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