Senate rejects eminent-domain proposals
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate yesterday rejected two efforts to limit the ways that small sewer companies created by private developers can use eminent domain to acquire easements on neighboring land.
The Senate voted largely along party lines -- with Democrats supporting the measures and majority Republicans generally opposing them -- on two amendments proposed by Sen. Connie Sipes, D-New Albany, who is frustrated by the actions of developers in Floyd County.
"I'm asking you to take a stand on protecting people's property," Sipes told her colleagues yesterday. "It is sacred to them."
Read more about this issue in the Courier-Journal.
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3/01/2006
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