Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     70-31-304. Reimbursement of costs when condemnation proceedings dismissed or abandoned. Where a condemnation proceeding is instituted by an agency to acquire real property for a program or project (for which federal financial assistance is available) and the final judgment is that the real property cannot be acquired by condemnation or that the proceeding is abandoned, the owner of any right, title, or interest in such real property shall be paid such sum as will, in the opinion of the court, reimburse such owner for his reasonable attorney, appraisal, and engineering fees actually incurred because of the condemnation proceedings. The award of such sums will be paid by the agency which sought to condemn the property.

     History: En. Sec. 13, Ch. 3, 2nd Ex. L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 93-9939.

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