Indiana Code 14-27-6-35. Eminent domain powers; rights of board and landowners
(1) land;
Terms Used In Indiana Code 14-27-6-35
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- board: refers to the board of the levee authority. See Indiana Code 14-27-6-2
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(3) a right in land;
for purposes permitted by this chapter, the board and all owners and holders of property or rights in property sought to be taken are governed by and have the same rights concerning procedure, notices, hearings, assessments of benefits and awards, and payments of benefits and awards that are prescribed by law for the appropriation and condemnation of real property.
(b) The property owners have the same powers and rights to:
(1) remonstrate; and
(2) appeal;
to the circuit or superior courts with jurisdiction in the county in which the district is located that are provided by law for the appropriation and condemnation of real property.
(c) An appeal:
(1) only affects the amount of the assessment of awards of the person appealing; and
(2) shall be taken in conformity with the laws relating to appeals. However, the payment of all damages awarded for land, property, or interests or rights in property appropriated under this chapter shall be paid entirely out of money under the control of the board.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-2-31-18(c).]
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.20.