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House panel hears bill to create uniform process for relocating private easements
Summary
House Bill 144 would allow judicial relocation of many private easements under a standardized process intended to help landlocked parcels and clarify who pays relocation costs; the bill exempts public utility, railroad and conservation easements from its scope, sponsors and witnesses said.
Representative Bill Faulkner presented House Bill 144, the Uniform Easement Relocation Act, to the House Committee on Local Government, describing it as a modernization of easement-relocation law intended to provide a clearer, judicially supervised process for relocating many private easements while preserving the functional benefit to the easement holder.
"It aims to modernize easement relocation laws and provide a more streamlined process ... to relocate easements when necessary to maximize the…
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