§ 45-32-32. Service of notice of taking.
No sum paid into the court or any interest paid on it shall be charged with clerk’s fees of any nature. After the filing of the copy of the resolution, plat, and declaration, notice of the taking shall be served upon the owners of or persons having any estate or interest in the real property by the sheriff or the sheriff ’s deputies of the county in which the person or persons reside, by leaving a copy attested by the secretary of the agency of the resolution and declaration 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 the person or persons do not reside in the county where the property is situated or are absent from this state and have no last and usual place of abode in the county occupied by any person, the copy shall be left by the sheriff or the sheriff’s deputies of the county where the real property lies with the person, if any, in charge of or having possession of the real property if the person is known to the officer. Whenever any owner or person entitled to any estate in or any interest in any part of the real property taken resides or is without the state, the agency shall cause to be served on that person personally, or at his or her last usual place of abode, a copy attested as prescribed of the resolution and declaration by any disinterested person, which person shall make affidavit of the service and of the mode in which, the time within, and the place at which, the service has been made; or service may be made by the admission of service by the person on the back of a copy of the resolution and a declaration and by his or her acknowledgment before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the law of the place where the admission of service is acknowledged.
History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3654, § 69; G.L. 1956, § 45-32-32.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 45-32 - Redevelopment Projects
Section 45-32-1. - Compliance prerequisite to further proceedings.
Section 45-32-2. - Planning commission required.
Section 45-32-3. - General community plan — Minimum requirements.
Section 45-32-4. - Resolution or ordinance designating redevelopment area — Public hearing.
Section 45-32-5. - Corporate powers of agencies.
Section 45-32-6. - Selection of project areas — Formulation of redevelopment plans.
Section 45-32-7. - Submission of redevelopment plans — Conformity to master plan.
Section 45-32-8. - Contents of redevelopment plan.
Section 45-32-9. - Optional features of redevelopment plans.
Section 45-32-10. - Petition for zoning changes.
Section 45-32-11. - Notice of hearing on plan.
Section 45-32-12. - Conduct of hearing.
Section 45-32-13. - Adoption of plan.
Section 45-32-14. - Provision for expenditure of money.
Section 45-32-15. - Declaration of intent to change streets.
Section 45-32-16. - Provision for payment for property condemned.
Section 45-32-17. - Finding as to federal aid.
Section 45-32-18. - Provisions for control of uses.
Section 45-32-19. - Power over zoning ordinances.
Section 45-32-20. - Contents of adoptive ordinance.
Section 45-32-21. - Responsibility for carrying out plan.
Section 45-32-22. - Further proceedings as to redevelopment — Actions to contest validity.
Section 45-32-23. - Modification of plan.
Section 45-32-24. - Power of eminent domain.
Section 45-32-25. - Property devoted to other public use.
Section 45-32-25.1. - Transfer of property by the state.
Section 45-32-26. - Resolution of necessity for acquisition.
Section 45-32-27. - Filing of resolution, plat, and declaration.
Section 45-32-28. - Deposit in superior court of compensation for property taken.
Section 45-32-29. - Addition to or return of deposits.
Section 45-32-30. - Vesting of title to property taken.
Section 45-32-31. - Publication of resolution and declaration.
Section 45-32-32. - Service of notice of taking.
Section 45-32-33. - Payment of agreed price.
Section 45-32-34. - Trial by court on damages.
Section 45-32-35. - Representation of infants and incompetents.
Section 45-32-36. - Unknown owners.
Section 45-32-37. - Immediate payment of compensation — Expediting proceedings.
Section 45-32-38. - Orders as to charges on lands.
Section 45-32-39. - “Owner” defined.
Section 45-32-40. - Taxation of real property acquired.
Section 45-32-41. - Proration of property tax.
Section 45-32-42. - Cooperation by public bodies.
Section 45-32-43. - Work to be done by contract.
Section 45-32-44. - Compliance with federal wage and hours policies.
Section 45-32-45. - Joint action by different cities and towns.
Section 45-32-46. - Consent to inclusion of area in project of contiguous city or town.
Section 45-32-47. - Continuation of prior projects.
Section 45-32-48. - Authorized acquisition, relocation, and improvement expenses.
Section 45-32-49. - Guarantee and acceptance of responsibility by community.
Section 45-32-50. - Calculation of interest under condemnation.