Easements
Alaska 34th Legislature
Railroad Utility Corridors [HB-136]
An Act relating to use of railroad easements.
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Gettr Alaska 34th Legislature
Chugach State Park Easements [HB-128]
An Act relating to Chugach State Park; and providing for an effective date.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 [HB-1396]
Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station.
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Establish the minimum compensation for an easement obtained through the exercise of eminent domain for a project affecting multiple landowners. [HB-1251]
Establish the minimum compensation for an easement obtained through the exercise of eminent domain for a project affecting multiple landowners.
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Protect landowners from the use of deception, fraud, harassment, intimidation, misrepresentation, or threat, in acquiring easements or easement options. [HB-1249]
Protect landowners from the use of deception, fraud, harassment, intimidation, misrepresentation, or threat, in acquiring easements or easement options.
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property. [SB-215]
Remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Overhead Transmission Lines - Eminent Domain [SB-955]
Prohibiting a person constructing an overhead transmission line from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property encumbered by a conservation easement; authorizing a certain property owner to bring an action for damages incurred as a result of a certain condemnation proceeding; and requiring that reasonable counsel fees be awarded to counsel for the defendant in a condemnation proceeding and that certain court costs be charged against the plaintiff under certain circumstances.
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Utah 2025 General Session
Public Waters Access Act Amendments [HB-386]
Public Waters Access Act Amendments
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 [SB-737]
Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Carroll County - Public Facilities Bond [HB-833]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Public Lands - Acquisition, Staffing, Operations, and Funding [HB-717]
Altering provisions of law regarding the acquisition of real property by the Department of Natural Resources; establishing a Land and Property Management Program in the Department to process certain real property transactions; authorizing the Department and the Natural Resources Police to establish affiliated foundations for certain purposes; altering the contents of the Forest or Park Reserve Fund; authorizing the Governor to transfer certain Program Open Space funds to the Department under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity – Overhead Transmission Lines – Conservation Easements [HB-640]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; and requiring the Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the development of overhead transmission lines to consider alternative routes for transmission lines affecting conservation easements or alter proposed routes.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Eminent Domain - Agricultural and Conservation Easements - Prohibited Taking [HB-631]
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Estate Development and Highway Rights-of-Way - Installation of Broadband Micro Conduits and Microducts [HB-626]
Requiring the installation of micro conduits in any utility easement and building power or telecommunication rooms during the new construction or major improvement of certain commercial and residential premises; requiring that buried fiber optic cable installed in a highway right-of-way include conduit containing at least seven microducts; requiring the Department of Transportation or a unit of local government to ensure a broadband service provider has access to the conduit on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis; etc.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Transfer Of Non-agricultural Park Lands. [SB-1573]
Requires the Department of Agriculture to accept the transfer of and manage certain qualifying non-agricultural park lands. Allows the Department of Agriculture to request information related to easements prior to any transfer of certain qualifying non-agricultural park lands. Requires approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Agriculture before removing pasture lands for reforestation, or other public purposes.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Carroll County - Public Facilities Bond [SB-416]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Chugach State Park Easements [SB-47]
An Act relating to Chugach State Park; and providing for an effective date.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To State Lands. [SB-457]
Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an abutting owner, by sale, or by lease. Provides requirements for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease state submerged lands and lands beneath tidal waters.
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Utah 2025 General Session
Military Affairs Amendments [HB-122]
Military Affairs Amendments
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Overhead Transmission Lines - Conservation Easements [SB-34]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; and requiring the Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the development of overhead transmission lines to consider alternative routes for transmission lines affecting conservation easements or alter proposed routes.