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Committee approves process for political subdivisions to assume abandoned canal easements
Summary
Second-substitute HB 3-63 would let municipalities or special districts file notice with the county recorder and affected landowners to assume prescriptive easements abandoned by canal companies; property owners get 120 days to object. The committee adopted the substitute and recommended the bill favorably with one recorded nay.
Representative Abbott presented HB 3-63, which creates a path for political subdivisions to take control of prescriptive easements when canal companies abandon canals. "When a canal company files an abandonment...a political subdivision can file a notice with the county recorder's office and send notice to the underlying owners and basically say we intend to take control of whatever prescriptive easement was held by…
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