THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SWANGER, AUMENT, BAKER, BARRAR, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, COX, DeWEESE, EVERETT, FLECK, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHART, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, LAWRENCE, MAJOR, MARSHALL, METZGAR, MILLER, MOUL, MURPHY, MURT, MUSTIO, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, SCHRODER, K. SMITH, SONNEY, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 1, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 1, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 26 (Eminent Domain) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in just compensation and measure of

damages, further providing for the reimbursement of

appraisal, attorney and engineering fees.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 710(a) of Title 26 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 710.  Limited reimbursement of appraisal, attorney and

engineering fees.

(a)  General rule.--The owner of any right, title or interest

in real property acquired or injured by an acquiring agency, who

is not eligible for reimbursement of fees under section 306(g)

(relating to preliminary objections), 308(d) (relating to

revocation of condemnation proceedings) or 709 (relating to

condemnee's costs where no declaration of taking filed), shall

be reimbursed in an amount not to exceed [$4,000] $25,000 as a

payment toward reasonable expenses actually incurred for

appraisal, attorney and engineering fees.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.