{"id":473,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/02\/11\/lege-trend-give-local-government-authority-to-use-eminent-domain-to-buy-private-utilities\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:22:00","slug":"lege-trend-give-local-government-authority-to-use-eminent-domain-to-buy-private-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lege-trend-give-local-government-authority-to-use-eminent-domain-to-buy-private-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Give Local Government Authority to Use Eminent Domain to Buy Private Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal subscribers have seen this trend as towns in Montana and California have moved to purchase by eminent domain private water utilities that aren&#8217;t providing a cost effective service to its citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, now the trend shifts to the Legislature. Which state legislature is moving language that allows local governments to use eminent domain to buy private utilities?<\/strong>\u00a0Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>What motivated the legislator to move forward with this new eminent domain authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constituents were &#8221; being forced to pay rates that are much higher&#8221; than other residents of the same county<\/li>\n<li>The Constituents paid higher rates and experienced\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What triggers will the law have to allow the governments to buy private utilties?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>65 percent of the customers sign a petition to initiate revocation of the utilities ability to operate<\/li>\n<li>the local government will have access to\u00a0low-interest financing for utility acquisitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/localgovernment\/bill-seeks-to-ease-summertree-utility-sale\/2264921\">Tampa Bay Times |\u00a0Bill seeks to ease Summertree utility sale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal subscribers have seen this trend as towns in Montana and California have moved to purchase by eminent domain private water utilities that aren&#8217;t providing a cost effective service to its citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, now the trend shifts to the Legislature. Which state legislature is moving language that allows local governments to use eminent domain to buy private utilities?<\/strong>\u00a0Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>What motivated the legislator to move forward with this new eminent domain authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constituents were &#8221; being&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}