Florida Statute 166.401 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 166
MUNICIPALITIES

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F.S. 166.401

166.401 Right of eminent domain; procedure; compliance with limitations.—

(1) All municipalities in the state may exercise the right and power of eminent domain; that is, the right to appropriate property within the state, except state or federal property, for the uses or purposes authorized pursuant to this part. The absolute fee simple title to all property so taken and acquired shall vest in such municipal corporation unless the municipality seeks to condemn a particular right or estate in such property.

(2) Each municipality is further authorized to exercise the eminent domain power granted to the Department of Transportation in s. 337.27(1) and the transportation corridor protection provisions of s. 337.273.

(3) The local governing body of a municipality may not exercise its power of eminent domain unless the governing body adopts a resolution authorizing the acquisition of a property, real or personal, by eminent domain for any municipal use or purpose designated in such resolution.

(4) Each municipality shall strictly comply with the limitations set forth in ss. 73.013 and 73.014.

History.—s. 1, ch. 73-129; s. 5, ch. 88-168; s. 18, ch. 90-227; s. 63, ch. 99-385; s. 13, ch. 2006-11.

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Basic Energy Corp. v. Hamilton County

652 So. 2d 1237, 1995 WL 147367

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 6, 1995 | Docket: 1385399

Cited 5 times | Published

between state prisons and county jails. [3] Section 166.401, Florida Statutes, provides that municipalities

City of Ocala v. Nye

608 So. 2d 15, 17 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 611, 1992 Fla. LEXIS 1637, 1992 WL 275893

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Oct 8, 1992 | Docket: 2528818

Cited 3 times | Published

City of Sunrise, 354 So.2d at 1209. Although section 166.401, Florida Statutes (1989),[6] purports to authorize

Florida East Coast Ry. Co. v. City of Miami

372 So. 2d 152

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 12, 1979 | Docket: 1695495

Cited 3 times | Published

in part on Ch. 24708, Laws of Fla. (1947), and § 166.401, Fla. Stat. (1977), but not on § 166.411(4), Fla

Nye v. City of Ocala

559 So. 2d 360, 1990 WL 37482

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 5, 1990 | Docket: 1524434

Cited 1 times | Published

[5] Indeed, we note the legislature amended section 166.401, Florida Statutes, in 1988 to explicitly authorize