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such civil engineer, surveyor, or assistant and against the State, its
instrumentality, or the body politic or corporate upon whose behalf
the person inflicting such damage was acting.

(d) Any land owner or other person who wilfully obliterates, dam-
ages, or removes any stake, marker, monument, or other landmark
set by any such civil engineer or surveyor acting pursuant to this
section, except where such stake, marker, monument or other land-
mark interferes with the proper use of the property, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than
five hundred dollars ($500.00).

Section 12.

(a)   When real property or a chattel real has been acquired, in
whole or in part, by condemnation or by purchase in lieu of condem-
nation, any person at whose expense any personal property, dead
body, grave marker or monument must be removed as a reasonably
necessary consequence of such condemnation or purchase in lieu of
condemnation, shall be entitled to receive from the condemnor or
purchaser a pecuniary allowance for the reasonable costs of removing
and placing the same to another location within a reasonable distance,
provided such removal and relocation are effected within one year

after the acquisition of such real property or a chattel real by pur-

chase or condemnation. SUCH PERSON HAS SUBMITTED HIS
CLAIM FOR SUCH ALLOWANCE TO SUCH CONDEMNOR OR
PURCHASER WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER THE REMOVAL
OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY, DEAD BODY, GRAVE
MARKER OR MONUMENT WITH RESPECT TO WHICH HE
CLAIMS PECUNIARY ALLOWANCE. Such allowance shall not
include any compensation for loss of profit or of good will or for the
acquisition of such other location.

(b)   Where personal property is removed from leased premises
from which the reversioner could have required its removal on the
termination of the lease, the allowance provided for in this section
shall be diminished by one-fifth for each year by which five years
exceeds the number of full years remaining in the term at the time
when the premises were acquired. Any option to renew or extend
such lease shall be treated as having been exercised, and the term
shall be deemed to include such renewal term or extension. The ad-
justment herein provided may not be used to reduce the allowance
provided for in this section below twenty-five hundred dollars
($2,500.00).

(c) Where personal property is removed, the allowance provided

for in this section shall not exceed the fair market value of such

personal property.

(C) WHEN PERSONAL PROPERTY IS REMOVED, THE
ALLOWANCE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION SHALL NOT
EXCEED THE FAIR MARKET VALUE OF SUCH PERSONAL
PROPERTY, BUT NOTHING IN THIS SUBSECTION SHALL
REQUIRE A CONDEMNOR TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT OR DE-
TAILED APPRAISAL OF ANY SUCH PERSONAL PROPERTY
BEFORE ALLOWING OR PAYING MOVING COSTS.

(d) When any personal property, dead body, grave marker, or
monument is removed to another location at an unreasonable dis-