§ 831x. — Condemnation proceedings; institution by Corporation; venue.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC831x]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12A--TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Sec. 831x. Condemnation proceedings; institution by Corporation;
venue
The Corporation may cause proceedings to be instituted for the
acquisition by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights-of-way
which, in the opinion of the Corporation, are necessary to carry out the
provisions of this chapter. The proceedings shall be instituted in the
United States district court for the district in which the land,
easement, right-of-way, or other interest, or any part thereof, is
located, and such court shall have full jurisdiction to divest the
complete title to the property sought to be acquired out of all persons
or claimants and vest the same in the United States in fee simple, and
to enter a decree quieting the title thereto in the United States of
America.
(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, Sec. 25, 48 Stat. 70; July 12, 1952, ch. 700, 66
Stat. 591; Pub. L. 90-536, Sec. 1, Sept. 28, 1968, 82 Stat. 885.)
Amendments
1968--Pub. L. 90-536 repealed six paragraphs following initial
paragraph which provided as follows: appointment of three commissioners,
oath as to absence of interest, and per diem for services and
subsistence, and transportation expenses; duties of commissioners as to
valuation of lands, conduct of hearings, taking of evidence,
administration of oaths, subpoena of witnesses, submission of report as
to value of land, and notice of award to parties; hearing de novo of
exceptions to award by three Federal district judges and judicial award;
disposition upon record after appeal from decision of judges; passage of
title and possession to property and enforcement by writ of
dispossession; and legal representatives for minors, insane or
incompetents, and estates of deceased, or guardians ad litem for wards.
1952--Act July 12, 1952, increased the commissioners' per diem from
$15 to $30, their sustenance from $5 to $10 a day, and allowed them 7
cents mileage.
Effective Date of 1968 Amendment
Section 2 of Pub. L. 90-536 provided that: ``The amendment made by
this Act [amending this section] shall be effective only with respect to
condemnation proceedings initiated after thirty days following the date
of enactment of this Act [Sept. 28, 1968].''
