{"id":762,"date":"2011-10-27T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2011-10-27T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:06:41","slug":"tx-homeowners-private-property-rights-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/tx-homeowners-private-property-rights-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"TX HOMEOWNERS&#8217; PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS EXTENDED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Bill 18 was passed by the recently adjourned Legislative session.\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 clarifies the definition of &#8220;public use&#8221; to more effectively constrain eminent domain to true public use.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 requires state &amp; local govenments, which seek to obtain private property, to make a written &#8220;good faith&#8221; offer to the landowner.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 grants a &#8220;buy-back&#8221; to a landowner whose property is taken through eminent domain &amp; not used for 10 years.\u00a0 (4)\u00a0 mandates the Condemnation Petition to state the public use purpose for the condemnation with a copy provided to the property owner.\u00a0 The passage of Senate Bill 18 came after Texas voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 11, which placed restrictions against eminent domain for economic development purposes in the Texas Constitution in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Bill 18 was passed by the recently adjourned Legislative session.\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 clarifies the definition of &#8220;public use&#8221; to more effectively constrain eminent domain to true public use.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 requires state &amp; local govenments, which seek to obtain private property, to make a written &#8220;good faith&#8221; offer to the landowner.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 grants a &#8220;buy-back&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}