§ 24-12-13. Deposits in court on eminent domain — Notice to owners — Agreement as to price.
No sum paid into the court as provided in § 24-12-12 shall be charged with clerk’s fees of any nature. After the filing of the copy, plat, and statement, notice of the taking of the land, or interest therein, shall be served upon the owners of and persons having an estate in and interested in the land by a member of the division of sheriffs, leaving 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 persons, if any, in charge of or having possession of the land, or interest therein, taken of the absent persons if the same are known to the officer; and after the filing of the resolution, plat and statement, the secretary of the authority shall cause a copy of the resolution and statement to be published in some newspaper published in the county where the land, or interest therein, may be located, at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks. If any person shall agree with the authority for the price of the land, or interest therein, so taken, the court upon the application of the parties in interest, may order that the sum agreed upon be paid immediately from the money deposited, as the just compensation to be awarded in the proceeding.
History of Section.P.L. 1954, ch. 3390, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 24-12-13; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 154; P.L. 2012, ch. 324, § 53.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 24-12 - Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority
Section 24-12-1. - Definitions.
Section 24-12-2. - Authority created — Composition.
Section 24-12-3. - Appointment of authority members — Oath of office.
Section 24-12-4. - Officers of authority — Quorum — Reimbursement of expenses of members.
Section 24-12-6. - Grants or leases of state or municipal lands.
Section 24-12-7. - Revenue bonds not a debt of the state.
Section 24-12-8. - Expenses limited to funds provided.
Section 24-12-9. - Powers of authority.
Section 24-12-10. - Eminent domain power.
Section 24-12-11. - Filing of eminent domain resolution, plat, and statement of amount offered.
Section 24-12-12. - Taking of possession of lands.
Section 24-12-13. - Deposits in court on eminent domain — Notice to owners — Agreement as to price.
Section 24-12-14. - Jury trial on price of land.
Section 24-12-15. - Representation of incompetent landowners.
Section 24-12-16. - Repayment of excess deposits.
Section 24-12-17. - Expediting proceedings — Land devoted to public use — Outstanding interests.
Section 24-12-19. - Use of bond proceeds — Supplementary issues — Surplus proceeds.
Section 24-12-22. - Purchase of Jamestown-Newport ferry franchise.
Section 24-12-23. - Maintenance of Jamestown-Newport ferry service.
Section 24-12-24. - Pension fund for ferry company employees.
Section 24-12-25. - Trust agreement.
Section 24-12-26. - Power to collect tolls and charges — Gasoline and service concessions.
Section 24-12-27. - Amount of tolls.
Section 24-12-28. - Revenues pledged to sinking fund.
Section 24-12-29. - Trust funds — Trustee.
Section 24-12-30. - Remedies of bondholders.
Section 24-12-31. - Tax exemption.
Section 24-12-32. - Eligibility of bonds for investment.
Section 24-12-33. - Negotiability of bonds.
Section 24-12-34. - Refunding bonds.
Section 24-12-35. - Resolutions of authority.
Section 24-12-36. - Annual report and audit.
Section 24-12-37. - Penalty for nonpayment of toll — Toll violators and toll evaders.
Section 24-12-37.1. - [Repealed.]
Section 24-12-37.2. - Driver/registered owner liability.
Section 24-12-38. - Covenant against competition.
Section 24-12-39. - Transfer of projects to state — Dissolution of authority.
Section 24-12-40B. - Certain bonds guaranteed by state.
Section 24-12-40C. - Additional state guaranteed and revenue bonds for Newport Bridge.
Section 24-12-40D. - Additional state guaranteed bonds for Newport Bridge.
Section 24-12-40E. - State guaranteed bonds — General provision.
Section 24-12-41. - Severability.
Section 24-12-42. - Narragansett Bay Bridge authority obligations.
Section 24-12-44. - Construction of connecting highways.
Section 24-12-44A, 24-12-44B. - Repealed.
Section 24-12-45. - Liberal construction.
Section 24-12-46. - Severability.
Section 24-12-47. - Inconsistent laws inapplicable.
Section 24-12-48. - Provision for severance benefits.
Section 24-12-49. - Declaration of policy — Preventing economic harm to the town of Jamestown.
Section 24-12-50. - Relationship to department of transportation.
Section 24-12-51. - The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge.
Section 24-12-51.1. - Former Jamestown Verrazano Bridge — Public fishing area.
Section 24-12-52. - Succotash Road Bridge.
Section 24-12-53. - William E. Powers Memorial Bridge.
Section 24-12-54. - Alfred U. Menard Memorial Bridge.
Section 24-12-55. - The Claiborne Pell Bridge.
Section 24-12-56. - Honorable John F. Conley Bridge.
Section 24-12-57. - General George S. Greene Memorial Bridge.
Section 24-12-58. - Robert E. Rowan, P.E. Bridge.
Section 24-12-59. - Bondholders’ rights not to be affected by the state.