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EMINENT DOMAIN. 1359
ARTICLE 33A.
EMINENT DOMAIN.
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1. Petition, where and against whom filed
and what to contain; unknown
owners.
2. Summons for defendants; renewal;
publication.
3. Answer of defendants; default; dis-
ability.
4. Amendments; demurrers, etc.
5-7. Trial, when had; jury, how selected;
view of premises, regulation of.
8. Opening statements, when made; jury
may view premises in charge of
sheriff or bailiff.
9. Trial, evidence, instructions, etc.; ex-
ceptions; bills of exceptions.
10. Interested persons not parties may in-
tervene, when and how.
11. Verdict may be excepted to; motion
for. new trial and in arrest; new
trial; judgment, how entered.
12. Appeal, bill of exceptions and record,
when to be filed.
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13. Payment of compensation after judg-
ment; how and when title may be
had.
14. Appeals, when heard ; defendants' coun-
sel fee, when taxed against peti-
tioner.
15. This article applicable to all condem-
nation proceedings save street or
highway cases.
16. Costs, who to pay.
17. How possession may be had pending
appeal; bond; final judgment.
18. Invalidity of sec. 17 not to affect
remainder of law.
Surveyors for Public Works.
19-21. Public engineers or surveyors may
enter private property ; property not
to be destroyed ; stakes, etc., may be
set; owners not to obstruct work;
penalties.
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An. Code, sec. 1. 1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, secs. 1 and 2.
1. The proceedings for the acquisition of private property for public
use shall be as follows:
The proceedings shall be begun by the filing of a petition in the Circuit
Court for the County in which the property sought to be condemned is
situated, on the law side thereof, or in one of the law courts of Baltimore
City, if such property is situated in Baltimore City, by the State, Muni-
cipal, or other corporation, commission, board, body or person seeking to
have the property condemned, and against the owner or owners thereof,
and the husbands and wives of married owners.
In case any owner or owners is or are not known, he or they may be
described in such petition as the unknown owner or owners, or the un-
known heir or heirs of a deceased owner. The petition shall set forth a
description of the property sought to be acquired, sufficient for identifica-
tion, a statement of the purpose for which same is sought to be condemned,
and that the petitioner is unable to agree with the owner or owners thereof,
See art. 3, secs. 40 and 40A of the Md. Constitution.
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