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- Title
Chapter 589: Conservation and Condemnation.
- Authors
Tatum, Rebecca
- Abstract
The article focuses on the violation of conservation easements, private property rights of a landowner to achieve conservation purposes, under the threat of condemnation practice in context to the infrastructure development in California. It presents the information on Chapter 589, the law, that provides easement holders a notice period of condemnation of no less than 105 days prior to the proceedings and a right to just compensation by the condemnor may be a nonprofit organizations or government agency. It highlights that before the Conservation Easement Act of 1979 selling or donating conservation easements was an expensive and cumbrous process however the law enactment provided, the right to restrict the development and use of the property for landowners.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION easements; PROPERTY rights; FOREST landowners; EMINENT domain; JUST compensation (Eminent domain); NONPROFIT organizations; GOVERNMENT agencies; CONSERVATION easement laws
- Publication
McGeorge Law Review, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 3, p589
- ISSN
1520-9245
- Publication type
Article