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• ♦Manual Notice 2011-1
• ►1. Introduction
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Note
    • ♦Expanded Guide
    • ♦Purpose
    • ♦Right of Way Form Templates
  • ►2. Authority
    • ♦Federal Law
    • ♦State Law
  • ►3. ROW Acquisition Overview
    • ♦Process
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►4. Answers to Your Questions
    • ♦TxDOT District Contacts
• ►2. ROW Procedures Preliminary to Project Release
  • ►1. General ROW Project Development
    • ♦Obtaining Relocation Funding - LPA Acquisitions (with State Participation)
    • ♦LPA Project Set Up (with State Participation)
  • ►2. Contractual Agreements
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Amendments
  • ►3. Cost Participation
    • ♦Overview
  • ►4. Payment Procedures
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►5. Acquisition Procedures for Economically Disadvantaged Counties
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►6. ROW Maps and Parcel Numbering
    • ♦Definition & Preparation
    • ♦Parcel Numbering
    • ♦Property Descriptions and Parcel Plats
• ►3. ROW Acquisition
  • ►1. Advance Acquisition of ROW
    • ♦Overview
  • ►2. Administrative Requirements after Formal Release for ROW Acquisition
    • ♦General
  • ►3. Basic Acquisition Responsibilities (for LPA)
    • ♦With State Participation
    • ♦Without State Participation on or off the State Highway System
    • ♦Task Sharing
  • ►4. District’s Monitoring of LPA Acquisition
    • ♦Requirement
  • ►5. Appraisal and Negotiation Requirements
    • ♦Informational Notice to Owners Required
    • ♦Pre-appraisal Contact
    • ♦Establishment of Just Compensation Required
    • ♦Policies on Use of Appraisers
    • ♦Appraisal Standards
    • ♦Appraisal Review Requirements
    • ♦Policies on Appraisal and State Acquisition of Improvements
    • ♦Written Offer to Purchase Required
    • ♦Owner Retention of Improvements
    • ♦Negotiation Contacts and Reports
    • ♦Updating Offer of Just Compensation
    • ♦Negotiations after Condemnation Proceedings Have Been Initiated
    • ♦Control of Access Rights
    • ♦Policy on “Uneconomic Remainders” (With State Participation)
    • ♦Excess Takings (With State Participation)
    • ♦Information for Income Tax Purposes for Property Owners
  • ►6. Special Appraisal Situations
    • ♦Irrigation and Drainage Canals
    • ♦Private Utility Lines
    • ♦Acquisition of TxDOT Employees’ Property (with State Participation)
    • ♦Administrative Settlements
    • ♦Procedures for Receiving Donations
  • ►7. Matching Fund Credits for LPAs
    • ♦Matching Fund Credits to LPA (State Funded Project; No Federal-Aid)
    • ♦Matching Fund Credits to LPA (Federal-aid Project)
  • ►8. Advertising Sign Interests
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Procedure
    • ♦Relocation Procedures For Signs With Valid Permits
    • ♦Leasehold Advertising Signs
  • ►9. Fencing Policies
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►10. Passes
    • ♦Pass Policies
  • ►11. Acquisitions of State Lands
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►12. Acquisition of Federal Lands for ROW
    • ♦General
    • ♦Property Adjustment Work on Federal Lands
  • ►13. Acquisition of County or City Property for ROW
    • ♦General
    • ♦Acquisition of Mitigation Lands (Federally-funded projects)
  • ►14. Instruments of Conveyance (State Participation)
    • ♦General Requirements for Proper Conveyance
    • ♦Standard Conveyance Forms
    • ♦Special Warranty Deeds
    • ♦Possession and Use Agreement, Form ROW-N-7
    • ♦Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
  • ►15. Special Clauses for Conveyance Instruments
    • ♦Policy (with State Participation)
    • ♦Approved Special Clauses for Use in Conveyance Instruments
  • ►16. Title Requirements, Conflicts, and Exceptions
    • ♦General Title Requirements
    • ♦Conflict of Title and Encroaching Improvements
    • ♦Policy Regarding Kind of Title to be Acquired
    • ♦Current and Delinquent Taxes
  • ►17. Title Insurance
    • ♦General
  • ►18. Procedure for Use of Attorney’s Certificate
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►19. Recording of Legal Instruments (with or without State Participation)
    • ♦General
  • ►20. Reimbursement Policies and Procedures
    • ♦Payment for Appraisers’ Eminent Domain Services
    • ♦State Reimbursement for LPA-Acquired ROW
    • ♦Submission for Reimbursement of ROW Fencing
    • ♦Incidental Expenses on Transfer of Real Property (State Participation)
    • ♦Mortgage Prepayment Penalty
• ►4. Relocation Assistance
  • ►1. Legislative Provisions/Laws and Regulations
    • ♦Federal Law and Regulations
    • ♦State Law
    • ♦Relocation Payments Non-Income Status
    • ♦Fair Housing
    • ♦Relocation Assistance and Local Public Agencies
  • ►2. Relocation Assistance Procedures
    • ♦Relocation Assistance on LPA-Negotiated Property on FM and 90‑10 Highway Projects
  • ►3. Pre-Negotiation Contacts
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►4. Real Property versus Personal Property
    • ♦Procedure
• ▼5. Eminent Domain
  • ►1. LPA Responsible for Condemnation
    • ♦General
  • ►2. Filing of Notice of Lis Pendens
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►3. Eminent Domain Forms for Cities
    • ♦Overview
  • ►4. Eminent Domain Forms for County
    • ♦Overview
  • ►5. Commission Authorization of County Condemnation Proceedings
    • ♦Overview
  • ►6. Condemnation in City’s Name
    • ♦Procedure
  • ►7. Procedure for Notification to TxDOT
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►8. LPA Appeal of Unfavorable Awards
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►9. State Intervention in Condemnation Proceedings
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►10. Use of State Approved Appraisers and Expert Witnesses in Condemnation
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ▼11. Exhibits for Condemnation Proceedings
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►12. Improvements Acquired in Condemnation Proceedings
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►13. Settlements of Condemnation Lawsuits
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►14. Payment of Litigation Expenses for Condemned Parcels
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►15. LPA Reimbursement for Condemned Parcels (State Participation)
    • ♦Eligible Condemnation Costs and Methods of Reimbursement
    • ♦Submission for Single Reimbursement Based on Final Judgment
    • ♦Submissions for Partial Reimbursement Based on 80% of the State’s Participation Amount of the Commissioners’ Award
    • ♦Submission for Reimbursement Following Partial Reimbursement on the Commissioners’ Award
• ►6. Removal of Improvements
  • ►1. Responsibility for Improvements
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
  • ►2. Proceeds From Sale of Improvements
    • ♦Procedure (State Participation)
• ►7. Leasing
  • ►1. Leasing of ROW by LPAs
    • ♦Overview
• ►8. Railroads
  • ►1. Railroad Relocation Procedures
    • ♦Procedure
• ►9. Records
  • ►1. Preparation for Closing ROW Projects
    • ♦Procedure
    • ♦Title III Parcel Review Checklist
  • ►2. ROW Record Requirements
    • ♦Overview
• ►10. Utilities
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Approval by TxDOT
    • ♦Further Information
• ►A. Disadvantaged Counties
• ►B. State Infrastructure Bank

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Section 11: Exhibits for Condemnation Proceedings

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Procedure (State Participation)

When an LPA desires to purchase aerial maps, special exhibits, related photographs and other similar materials for use in condemnation proceedings, TxDOT will reimburse the percent as shown in the agreement of such costs if the District Engineer gives prior approval.