§ 13-11-101. Short Title
This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1972.”
§ 13-11-102. Purpose
The purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced as a direct result of programs or projects undertaken by state agencies with or without federal financial assistance, programs or projects undertaken by local agencies with federal or state financial assistance and programs or projects […]
§ 13-11-103. Chapter Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Business” means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily: For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property; For the sale of services to the […]
§ 13-11-104. Effect Upon Property Acquisition
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of value or of damage not in existence immediately prior to March 30, 1972.
§ 13-11-105. Moving and Related Expenses
Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by a displacing agency will result in the displacement of any person, the head of the displacing agency shall provide for the payment to the displaced person of: Actual reasonable expenses in moving such person, such person’s family, business, farm operation, or other personal property; Actual direct […]
§ 13-11-106. Replacement Housing for Homeowners
In addition to payments otherwise authorized by this chapter, the head of the displacing agency shall make an additional payment not in excess of twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling actually owned and occupied by such displaced person for not less than one hundred eighty […]
§ 13-11-107. Replacement Housing for Tenants and Certain Others
In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this chapter, the head of a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under § 13-11-106, which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than ninety (90) […]
§ 13-11-108. Relocation Assistance Advisory Services
Programs or projects undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance shall be planned in a manner that: Recognizes, at an early stage in the planning of such programs or projects and before the commencement of any actions which will cause displacements, the problems associated with the displacement of individuals, families, businesses, and […]
§ 13-11-109. Housing Replacement by State Agency as Last Resort
If a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance cannot proceed on a timely basis because comparable replacement dwellings are not available, and the head of the displacing agency determines that such dwellings cannot otherwise be made available, the head of the displacing agency may take such action as […]
§ 13-11-110. Requirements for Relocation Payments and Assistance of State Assisted Programs — Assurances of Availability of Housing
Notwithstanding any other law, the head of a state agency shall not approve any grant to, or contract or agreement with, a local agency under which state financial assistance will be available to pay all or part of the cost of any program or project which will result in the displacement of any person on […]
§ 13-11-111. Permissive Authority Given Local Agency
Whenever a program or project undertaken by a local agency or person requires the acquisition of real property or the displacement of any person, the head of the local agency, or the person, shall have permissive authority to provide payments and assistance under this chapter for any displaced person, including replacement housing when necessary, as […]
§ 13-11-112. State Share of Costs
The cost to a local agency of providing payments and assistance under §§ 13-11-109 and 13-11-110 shall be included as part of the cost of a program or project for which state financial assistance is available to such local agency, and such local agency shall be eligible for state financial assistance with respect to such […]
§ 13-11-113. Authority of the Governor
The governor or the governor’s designee, or the head of a local agency, where a local agency undertakes a program or project without federal financial assistance and uses its permissive authority under § 13-11-111, shall establish criteria necessary to assure that: The payments and assistance authorized by this chapter shall be administered in a manner […]
§ 13-11-114. Administration — Relocation Assistance Programs
To prevent unnecessary expense and duplication of functions, and to promote uniform and effective administration of this chapter, a state agency, applicable local agency, or applicable person may enter into contracts with any individual, firm, or corporation for services in connection with a program or project, or may carry out all functions provided for under […]
§ 13-11-115. Payments Not to Be Considered as Income or Resources
No payment received by a displaced person under this chapter shall be considered as income or resources for the purposes of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistance under any state law or for the purposes of the state’s corporation tax law, or other tax laws. These payments shall not […]
§ 13-11-116. Replacement by Building Code Enforcement or Voluntary Rehabilitation
A person who moves or discontinues such person’s business or moves other personal property, or moves from such person’s dwelling on or after March 30, 1972, as the direct result of building code enforcement activities or a program of rehabilitation of buildings conducted pursuant to a state project or program shall, for the purposes of […]
§ 13-11-117. Reduction in Payments
No payment or assistance provided for under this chapter shall be required to be made to any displaced person, or included as a program or project cost under this chapter, if such displaced person receives a payment required by federal, state, or local law, which is determined by the head of the displacing agency to […]
§ 13-11-118. Uneconomic Remnant — Donation of Property
If the acquisition of only a portion of a property being acquired for a program or project with federal financial assistance would leave the owner with an uneconomic remnant, the state agency, local agency, or person concerned shall offer to acquire that remnant. For the purposes of this chapter, an uneconomic remnant is a parcel […]
§ 13-11-119. State as Federal Agent
A state agency shall be authorized to act as the agent of a federal agency to carry out the federal agency’s responsibilities under federal law which are consistent with this chapter.