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RESOLUTION #2003-2 <br />Highway Easement Payments <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the North Dakota Century Code defines an easement as "a charge or burden <br /> upon one estimate, the servient, for the benefit of another, the dominant"; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />the Cass County Highway Department has in the course of repairing and <br />maintaining county roads and bridges an interest in claiming the rights to <br />easements and rights-of-way under the North Dakota Century Code <br />Collateral References that reads: "Conveyance of land as bounded by road, <br />street, or other way as giving grantee rights in or to such a way"; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Cass County Commission will establish a payment of $ 200.00 per <br /> landowner, per project for Temporary Construction Easement dghts; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Cass County Commission will establish a payment of $ 500.00 per <br /> landowner, per project for a Permanent Easement or Right-of-Way; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />the Cass County Commission establishes that the maximum amount to be <br />paid to a single ownership is $ 500.00, regardless of the number, variety, or <br />size of parcels acquired; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />the Cass County Commission realizes that if the above written terms are not <br />acceptable to the landowner, they have the right to donate their land or have <br />the parcel appraised for the purpose of determining fair market value and <br />just compensation in accordance with current federal highway regulations; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Cass County Commission establishes that an appraisal of a parcel is <br /> unnecessary if the valuation problem is uncomplicated and the fair market <br /> value is estimated at $2,500 or less, based on a review of available data, and <br /> in accordance with 49 CFR Part 24. <br /> <br />Now, therefore, it is hereby resolved, by a unanimous vote of the Cass County Commission <br />that this resolution determining the amounts of payments for easements and rights-of-way <br />will be effective February 18, 2003. <br /> <br />Dated this 18th day of February, 2003. <br /> <br />Scott Wagner, Chairman <br />Cass County Commission <br /> <br />Michael Montplaisir <br />Cass County Auditor <br /> <br />M:\MINUTES\Comm2003\#2003-2HWYEASEMENTPMT.doc <br /> <br /> <br />