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EMINENT DOMAIN RIGHTS of privately owned land by utility companies in Florida

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  • FrommerStop

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    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0300-0399/0361/0361.html

    While googling FL law on private lands I chanced on this information on eminent domain. Any of the privately owned utility companies can use private lands if they need under many conditions. We all have heard how government can do this, but apparently privately owned corporations can do it also in Florida. They also can log and mine your property if they see a need for those materials.

    CHAPTER 361
    PUBLIC UTILITIES: SPECIAL POWERS
    PART I


    EMINENT DOMAIN RIGHTS
    (ss. 361.01-361.08)
    PART II
    JOINT ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY PROJECTS
    (ss. 361.10-361.18)
    PART I
    EMINENT DOMAIN RIGHTS
    361.01 Eminent domain.
    361.02 Constructing dams for waterpower.
    361.025 Right of eminent domain to railroad companies.
    361.03 Right of eminent domain to electric railway companies.
    361.04 Right of eminent domain to waterworks companies.
    361.05 Right of eminent domain to natural gas companies.
    361.06 Right of eminent domain to petroleum and petroleum products pipeline companies.
    361.07 Right of eminent domain to companies owning and operating sewer or wastewater reuse systems.
    361.08 Right of eminent domain to coal pipeline companies.
    361.01 Eminent domain.—The president and directors of any corporation organized for the purpose of constructing, maintaining or operating public works, or their properly authorized agents, may enter upon any lands, public or private, necessary to the business contemplated in the charter, and may appropriate the same, or may take from any land most convenient to their work, any timber, stone, earth or other material which may be necessary for the construction and the keeping in repair of its works and improvements upon making due compensation according to law to private owners.
    History.—s. 10, ch. 1639, 1868; RS 2158; GS 2683; RGS 4111; CGL 6042.
     

    wildrider666

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    Its like that everywhere and there is due process but private property owners seldom prevail. This was a issue with a golf course expension last year because the golf course could be used by the public (even with a private membership). Very common with road widening, school campus expansion. How many properties did the Keystone Pipeline impact?
     

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    Eminent domain laws are some of the most abused on the books yet you hear little about them due to the issues being mainly local. Local politicians are some of the worst offenders as they seize property for commercial expansion...and are heavily invested in the outcome, personally or financially.
     

    FrommerStop

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    Eminent domain laws are some of the most abused on the books yet you hear little about them due to the issues being mainly local. Local politicians are some of the worst offenders as they seize property for commercial expansion...and are heavily invested in the outcome, personally or financially.
    Is it any surprise that the powerful want to gather up all the ARs and similar weapons from American citizens.
     
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