{"id":574,"date":"2016-06-17T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/06\/17\/interim-precondemnation-access-eminent-domain-the-attorney-general-opinion-to-answer-it-all\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:10:00","slug":"interim-precondemnation-access-eminent-domain-the-attorney-general-opinion-to-answer-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/interim-precondemnation-access-eminent-domain-the-attorney-general-opinion-to-answer-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM. Precondemnation Access. Eminent Domain. The Attorney General Opinion to Answer it All."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Chairman Byron Cook initiated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2016\/pdf\/RQ0113KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ- 0113-KP<\/a>\u00a0about Texas Central Rail<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Questions asked of the Attorney General:<\/strong>Do the parties have eminent domain authority to condemn property for Texas High Speed Rail?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Facts and Statutes key to whether\u00a0Texas Central Rail has eminent domain power:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>surveyors have been requesting pre-condemnation access to land to survey for the purpose ofplanning, building, maintaining and operating an electric rail road.<\/li>\n<li>pre-condemnation access can only exist because the entity has the power of eminent domain<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail has gone so far as taken landwoners to court for not allowing pre-condemantion access<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail claims Sections 81.002, 112,051, 112.053, 131.011 and 131.012 of the Transportation Code support that it is a railroad that has eminent domain authority under the Transportation Code<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail meets neither the formation date requirement nor the current operation as a railroad requirements of Transportation Code\u00a0Sections 81.002\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail fails to meet the definition of interurban electric rail in Section 113.011 and 113.012 because\u00a0Texas old civil statutes define interurban electric rail and it is not high speed rail\u00a0for these reasons:\n<ul>\n<li>High Speed Rail is\u00a0not\u00a0a Section 81.002 railroad<\/li>\n<li>Civil Statutes show interurban electric rail was to connect suburbs with their cities<\/li>\n<li>Interurban rail has to be completed within 1 year of condemnation<\/li>\n<li>They sell energy to the public<\/li>\n<li>Require municipal approval for tracks that traverse a city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/koxe.com\/lawmaker-revives-eminent-domain-question-for-dallas-houston-bullet-train-project\/\">KOXE | Lawmaker Revives Eminent Domain Question for Dallas-Houston High Speed Rail Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/view\/full_story\/27211871\/article-Lawmaker-Revives-Eminent-Domain-Question-for-Bullet-Train?instance=special_coverage_bullets_right_column\">Gilmer Mirror |\u00a0Lawmaker Revives Eminent Domain Question for Bullet Train<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Chairman Byron Cook initiated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2016\/pdf\/RQ0113KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ- 0113-KP<\/a>\u00a0about Texas Central Rail<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Questions asked of the Attorney General:<\/strong>Do the parties have eminent domain authority to condemn property for Texas High Speed Rail?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Facts and Statutes key to whether\u00a0Texas Central Rail has eminent domain power:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>surveyors have been requesting pre-condemnation access to land to survey for the purpose ofplanning, building, maintaining and operating an electric rail road.<\/li>\n<li>pre-condemnation access 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