Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-8. Title to property of railroads
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The department may take whatever steps are necessary in order to determine the absolute fee simple title ownership of all rail properties of any railroad within the state. The determination may include the status of the rail properties with respect to easements, rights of way, leases, reversionary rights, fee simple title ownership, and any and all related title matters. The department may retain attorneys, experts, or other assistants, and issue any contracts as are necessary to make the title determination.
History of Section.
P.L. 1976, ch. 28, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-8
- Department: means the department of transportation or other appropriate state agency of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Rail properties: means assets or rights, both real and personal, owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by a railroad that are used or useful in providing rail transportation service. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
- Railroad: means and includes every railroad other than a street railway, by whatsoever power, operated for public use in the conveyance in this state of persons or property for compensation, with all bridges, ferries, tunnels, switches, spurs, tracks, stations, wharves, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated, controlled, leased, or owned by or in connection with any railroad. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2