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RI Gen L § 37-6-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-10 - Acquisition of limited or encumbered title.

§ 37-6-10. Acquisition of limited or encumbered title.Whenever in the opinion of the acquiring authority the purposes for which control over any land or other real property is needed are not essentially impaired by the acquisition of an interest in the land, or other real property less than a fee simple, or less than perpetual in duration, or subject to any easements or rights of way, or subject to reserved or outstanding interests or rights, and there is a substantial saving in cost by acquiring limited title or title subject to the encumbrances, reserved or outstanding interests or rights in the land or other real property, as compared with the cost of acquiring fee simple unencumbered title thereto, the acquiring authority shall be and hereby is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the state properties committee, to take and accept an interest less than a fee simple in the land or real property, or for a limited period of time, or subject to easements, rights of way, reserved or outstanding interests or rights, and the attorney general in that case may approve the limited title or title subject to easements, rights of way, reservations, or outstanding interests or rights.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-10.
RI Gen L § 37-6-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-11 - Acquisition of outstanding interests limiting or encumbering title.

§ 37-6-11. Acquisition of outstanding interests limiting or encumbering title.Whenever estates, rights, interests, easements, and privileges in lands or other real property can be acquired at prices reasonable in the judgment of the state properties committee, the acquiring authority is authorized and empowered to acquire the estates, rights, interests, easements, and privileges by purchase. The state controller, upon the passage of title to the state, is authorized and directed, upon receipt by him or her of proper and duly authenticated vouchers, to draw his or her order upon the general treasurer for the payment of the purchase price therefor out of the amount appropriated to the acquiring authority.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-11.
RI Gen L § 37-6-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-12 - Examination of title by attorney general - Acquisition of title insurance.

§ 37-6-12. Examination of title by attorney general — Acquisition of title insurance.The attorney general shall require the state purchasing agent to engage a title insurance company doing business within this state to furnish a certificate of title or to issue to the state a policy of title insurance covering the real estate, and the expense of procuring the certificate or title insurance policy shall be paid out of the appropriation made to the acquiring authority for the acquisition. No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by, devised to, or conveyed as a gift to the state until the acquisition of such certificate of title or policy of title insurance.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-12; P.L. 2002, ch. 401, § 2.
RI Gen L § 37-6-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-13 - Authorization of condemnation for road purposes.

§ 37-6-13. Authorization of condemnation for road purposes.Whenever in the opinion of the director of transportation the acquisition of land or other real property or any interest, estate, or right therein is necessary or advantageous for the establishing, laying out, widening, extending, relocating, regrading, straightening, or improving of any public highway, street, or parkway, or to secure more suitable lines, grades, or safety, the state properties committee may authorize the acquisition thereof by condemnation proceedings; provided, however, the state properties committee shall not authorize any land or estate owned and used by any railroad company to be taken by condemnation until after hearing before the division of public utilities and carriers and until the consent of the division of public utilities and carriers to the taking shall be given.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-13.
RI Gen L § 37-6-13.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-13.1 - Authorization of condemnation for state office buildings.

§ 37-6-13.1. Authorization of condemnation for state office buildings.Whenever in the opinion of the director of administration the acquisition of land or other real property or any interest, estate, or right therein is necessary or advantageous for the construction of state office buildings, including parking areas required therefor, and other related facilities within that parcel of real estate bounded on the north by Orms Street, on the west by Freeway Service Drive, on the south by Smith Street and on the east by the railroad tracks of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, except that portion of the parcel owned by St. Patrick's Church, Providence, Rhode Island, the state properties committee may authorize the acquisition thereof by condemnation proceedings; provided, however, the state properties committee shall not authorize any land or estate owned and used by any railroad company to be taken by condemnation until after a hearing before the division of public utilities and carriers and until the consent of the division of public utilities and carriers to the taking shall be given.History of Section.P.L. 1967, ch. 91, § 1.
RI Gen L § 37-6-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-14 - Filing of condemnation papers - Vesting of title - Availability of state treasury funds.

§ 37-6-14. Filing of condemnation papers — Vesting of title — Availability of state treasury funds.Within six (6) months after the state properties committee has authorized condemnation proceedings, the acquiring authority shall file in the office of the recorder of deeds or town clerk in the city or town where the land or other real property to be acquired is situated, a description of the land or other real property, a plat thereof, a statement that the land or other real property is taken pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and the nature of the title to be acquired, whether the title be a fee simple or less than perpetual in duration, or subject to any easements or rights of way, or subject to any reserved or outstanding interests or rights, or subject to any encumbrances. The description, plat, and statement shall be signed by the head of the acquiring authority and upon the filing of the description, plat, and statement the title of such land or other real property as set forth in the statement shall vest in the state of Rhode Island. All funds at any time in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated shall thereupon be available for the payment of the value of the land or other real property so taken and of appurtenant damage to any remainder with lawful interest thereon.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 11; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-14.
RI Gen L § 37-6-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-15 - Service of notice of condemnation.

§ 37-6-15. Service of notice of condemnation.After the filing of the description, plat, and statement, a notice of the taking of the land or other real property shall be served upon the owner and persons having an estate or right in or who are interested in the land or other real property by any deputy sheriff, or constable for the county in which the land or other real property is situated. The officer who shall leave a true and attested copy of the description and statement with each of the persons personally or at their last and usual place of abode in this state with some person living there, and in case any of the persons are absent from this state and have no last and usual place of abode therein occupied by any person, the copy shall be left with the person or persons, if any, in charge of, or having possession of, the land or other real property taken of the absent persons, and another copy thereof shall be mailed to the address of the absent persons, if the same is known to the officer serving the notice.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 11; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-15; P.L. 1993, ch. 100, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 214, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 324, § 72.
RI Gen L § 37-6-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-16 - Publication of notice of condemnation.

§ 37-6-16. Publication of notice of condemnation.(a) After the filing of the description and statement, the acquiring authority shall cause a notice of condemnation to be published in the newspaper of greatest circulation in the city or town where the land or other real property is located at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks. The notice shall contain the name of the acquiring authority, the plat number of the taking, the date the condemnation was authorized by the state properties committee, the date of the taking, the property interest or interests acquired, the purpose of the taking, and the location of the area of the condemnation together with a statement that the complete description may be obtained from the office of the director of the condemning authority.(b) For the purposes of this statute, a notice in substantially the following form will suffice: NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION — [Plat Number]. Location: [City or Town] — [Street, streets or area or location of taking]. The [condemning authority] pursuant to authorization received from the state properties committee on [date] did on [date] take [fee, simple title, permanent easements, temporary easements, or other interest in property] in the location referred to above for [purpose of taking]. A complete description of the taking may be obtained from [the office of the director of the condemning authority, address].History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 11; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-16; P.L. 1982, ch. 225, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 85, § 1.
RI Gen L § 37-6-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-17 - Payment of agreed price for condemned land.

§ 37-6-17. Payment of agreed price for condemned land.If any party shall agree with the acquiring authority upon the sum to be paid for the value of the land or other real property so taken and of appurtenant damage to any remainder or for the value of his or her estate, right, or interest therein, and the price shall be approved by the state properties committee, the price shall be paid to him or her forthwith. The state controller is authorized and directed, upon receipt by him or her of proper and duly authenticated vouchers, to draw his or her order upon the general treasurer for the payment of the agreed price out of any funds appropriated and available therefor; provided, however, that if any party shall fail to agree with the acquiring authority upon the sum to be paid for the value of the land or other real property so taken and of appurtenant damage to any remainder or for the value of his or her estate, right, or interest therein, then, the state properties committee, upon the application of the party in interest and of the joinder of all other parties in interest shall order paid forthwith, to the party or parties so applying for or on account of the just compensation to be awarded under a petition filed or to be filed in the superior court for the assessment of damages, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the acquiring authority's offer pending final disposition of the court proceeding. The verdict and the judgment thereafter entered in the court proceeding shall not include any item for interest upon such amount as shall be or could have been ordered paid by the state properties committee on account of the just compensation for any period of time from and after thirty (30) days following the making in writing of the acquiring authority's offer.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 11; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-17; P.L. 1961, ch. 166, § 1; P.L. 1966, ch. 219, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 225.
RI Gen L § 37-6-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-18 - Petition for assessment of damages by jury.

§ 37-6-18. Petition for assessment of damages by jury.Any owner of, or any person entitled to any estate or right in, or interested in any part of the land or other real property so taken, who cannot agree with the acquiring authority upon the price to be paid for his or her estate, right, or interest in land or other real property so taken and the appurtenant damage to the remainder, may within one year from the filing of the description and statement aforesaid, apply by petition to the superior court in the county of Providence or to the superior court for one of the counties in which the land or other real property may be situated, setting forth the taking of his or her land or his or her estate or interest therein and praying for an assessment of damages by a jury. Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the pendency thereof to be given to the acquiring authority by serving the head thereof with a certified copy thereof and by leaving certified copies thereof at the office of the attorney general and at the office of the state properties committee.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 11; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-18.
RI Gen L § 37-6-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-19 - Late filing of petition for assessment of damages.

§ 37-6-19. Late filing of petition for assessment of damages.In case any owner of or any person having an estate or interest in land or other real property shall fail to file his or her petition as provided in § 37-6-18, the superior court in the county of Providence or the superior court for one of the counties in which the land or other real property may be situated, in its discretion, may permit the filing of the petition subsequent to the one year period from the filing of the description and statement; provided, the person shall have had no actual knowledge of the taking of the land in time to file the petition; and provided, that the state shall not have paid any other person or persons claiming to own the land the value thereof or be liable to pay for the land under any judgment rendered under the provisions of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 12; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-19; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 160.
RI Gen L § 37-6-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-20 - Pretrial conference with state properties committee - Proceeding to trial.

§ 37-6-20. Pretrial conference with state properties committee — Proceeding to trial.In the event that the government of the United States of America does not participate with the state of Rhode Island in the payment of any funds to the claimant or claimants of an estate, then within sixty (60) days after the service of a certified copy upon the head of the acquiring authority, the owner of and any person entitled to any estate in or interested in any part of the land or other real property so taken shall confer with the state properties committee and, if at the expiration of ninety (90) days after the service of the certified copy upon the head of the acquiring authority, the owner of and person entitled to any estate in or interested in any part of the land or other real property so taken has not agreed with the state properties committee upon the price to be paid for his or her estate, right, or interest in the land or other real property so taken and the appurtenant damage to the remainder, he or she may proceed to the trial thereof in the superior court. In the event that the government of the United States of America does participate with the state of Rhode Island in the payment of any funds, in any proportion, to the claimant or claimants of the estate, then the owner of and any person entitled to any estate in or interested in any part of the land or other real property so taken shall not confer with the state properties committee, but the cause may then proceed to trial in the superior court.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 12; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-20; P.L. 1962, ch. 9, § 1.
RI Gen L § 37-6-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-21 - Conduct of trial on damages.

§ 37-6-21. Conduct of trial on damages.A trial shall be conducted as other civil actions at law are tried. The trial shall determine all questions of fact relating to the value of the estate or interest in the land or other real property taken and the appurtenant damage to any remainder and the amount thereof. The trial and verdict of the jury shall be subject to all rights to move for new trial and to appeal as are provided by law.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 12; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-21.
RI Gen L § 37-6-21.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-21.1 - Expediting proceedings.

§ 37-6-21.1. Expediting proceedings.In any proceedings for the assessment of damages for real property so taken by the state under the provisions of this chapter, at any time during the pendency of the action or proceeding, the state or owner may apply to the court for an order directing the owner or state, as the case may be, to show cause why the further proceeding should not be expedited. The court may upon application make an order requiring that the hearings proceed and that any other steps be taken with all possible expedition, and all the court actions shall have precedence on the calendar and shall continue to have precedence on the calendar on a day-to-day basis until the matter is heard.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 240, § 1.
RI Gen L § 37-6-22 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-22 - Consolidation of petitions as to same land.

§ 37-6-22. Consolidation of petitions as to same land.In case two (2) or more petitioners make claim to the same land, or other real property, or to any estate or interest therein, or to different estates or interests in the same parcel of land or other real property, the court shall, upon motion, consolidate their several petitions for trial and shall frame all necessary issues therefor.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 12; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-22.
RI Gen L § 37-6-23 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 37 - Public Property and Works|Chapter 37-6 - Acquisition of Land|Section 37-6-23 - Calculation of interest and payment of judgment.

§ 37-6-23. Calculation of interest and payment of judgment.(a) If a petition for assessment of damages is filed, then the property owner shall be entitled to interest on the fair market value of the property taken by the acquiring authority from the date it is condemned to the day that judgment enters. Interest thereon shall be calculated on the fair market value of the property which exceeds the amount offered by the acquiring authority pending final disposition of the court proceedings. Upon a recovery of final judgment, an execution shall be issued therefor and shall be forthwith paid by the general treasurer out of any funds appropriated and available therefor. Interest on any judgment shall be computed daily to the date of payment and shall be compounded annually. Interest shall be calculated as follows:(1) Where the period for which interest is owed does not exceed one year, interest shall be calculated for such period form the date of taking at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity Treasury yield, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the calendar week preceding the date of the taking.(2) Where the period for which interest is owed is more than one year, interest for the first year shall be calculated in accordance with subdivision (1) of this section and interest for each additional year shall be calculated on the combined amount of the principal and accrued interest at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity Treasury yield, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the calendar week preceding the beginning of each additional year.(b) In the event the one year constant maturity Treasury yield is converted to a different standard reference base or otherwise revised, the determination of interest shall be made with the use of such converted or revised standard reference base. In the event the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ceases to publish a converted or revised rate, interest shall be calculated at a rate published by the United States Treasury Department, or other comparable entity, that establishes a rate reflecting or best approximating the market conditions for one year investments at the time of the taking and each additional year that interest is owed pursuant to subdivision (2) above.History of Section.P.L. 1953, ch. 3105, § 12; P.L. 1955, ch. 3515, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 37-6-23; P.L. 1962, ch. 9, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 257, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 555, § 4; P.L. 1994, ch. 258, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 260, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 275, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 363, § 36.