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Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-17-801

Payments into court at commencement of condemnation proceedings

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Leonard v. Knox County, TN (2004)

Most recently applied in Leonard v. Knox County, TN (March 2004)

Acts 1957, ch. 298, § 1; 1967, ch. 20, § 1; T.C.A., § 23-1526; Acts 1981, ch. 525, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A. § 29-17-701; Acts 2006, ch. 863, §§ 1, 21.

(1) When a governmental entity or other person or entity with the power of eminent domain deems it necessary to condemn any property or property rights pursuant to this chapter or chapter 16 of this title, it shall deposit the amount determined by the required appraisal with the clerk of the circuit court having jurisdiction in the county in which the property or property rights, or a portion of the property or property rights, is located, and shall file a petition in the court asking that the property or property rights be condemned and decreed to the condemner.

(2) The payment into court shall in no way limit or fix the amount to be allowed under subsequent proceedings in such case, and any further or additional sum that may be finally awarded in any subsequent proceedings shall bear interest from the date of the taking of possession of the property or property rights condemned by the condemner.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.