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Senate committee approves bill requiring complete meets‑and‑bounds descriptions in TDOT takings
Summary
The Senate Transportation and Safety Committee voted unanimously to advance Senate Bill 373, which would require the Tennessee Department of Transportation to include a complete meets‑and‑bounds description in right‑of‑way petitions and fix the valuation date to the date that complete description is served.
Senator Rose, sponsor of Senate Bill 373, told the Senate Transportation and Safety Committee that the bill would require a “complete and accurate meets and bounds subscription of the property to be taken” in TDOT eminent‑domain petitions and would make “the compensation for the property to be taken must be established on the date on which the petition with a complete and accurate meets and bounds description is contained therein was served.”
The change, Rose said, has two parts:…
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