5352-S.E AMH SHEA PARC 038

ESSB 5352 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-3031.2/09) 466

By Representative Shea

ADOPTED 4/10/2009

    On page 15, line 23, after "request."  insert: "If the department determines that all or a portion of real property or an interest in real property that was acquired through condemnation or the threat of condemnation is no longer necessary for a public purpose and should be sold, the former owner shall have a right of repurchase.  "Former owner" means the person or entity from whom the department acquired title and that person's or entity's successors or assigns to the property or property interest subject to the repurchase right.  At least ninety days prior to the date on which the property is to be sold by the department, the department must mail notice of the planned sale to the former owner of the property at the former owner's last known address or to a forwarding address if that owner has provided the department with a forwarding address.  If the former owner notifies the department within thirty days of the date of the notice that the former owner intends to repurchase the property, the department shall proceed with the sale of the property to the former owner and shall not list the property for sale to other owners.  If the former owner does not provide timely written notice to the department of the intent to exercise a repurchase right, or if the sale to the former owner is not completed within one year of the date of notice that the former owner intends to repurchase the property, that right shall be extinguished."

EFFECT:   Requires the department to notify the former owner of condemned land of the department's intent to sell the property and requires that the property be sold to the former owner if the former owner wishes to purchase the property.

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