If the owner is satisfied with the amount deposited by the condemner with the clerk of the court, the owner may file with the clerk a statement, duly sworn to, stating that the filer is the owner of the property or property rights described in the petition and that the owner accepts the amount deposited with the clerk as full settlement for the taking of such property or property rights and all damages occasioned to the residue of the property, and the clerk shall pay to the owner the amount deposited with the clerk, and the court, at its next term, shall enter a decree divesting the title to the property or property rights out of the owner and vesting the same in the condemner.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-17-904
Acceptance by property owner of amount deposited
Acts 1959, ch. 216, § 4; T.C.A., § 23-1531; T.C.A. § 29-17-804; Acts 2006, ch. 863, § 1.
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.