§ 8-23-8-3 — Acquisition of property and property rights

(a) The department or a highway authority may
acquire private or public property and property rights for limited access
facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and
light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation for the laying out,
widening, or improvement of highways and streets within their
respective jurisdictions.
(b) In the acquisition of property or property rights for a limited
access facility or a service road connected with a facility, the state,
county, or municipality may acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of
land, if the interests of the public will be best served, even though the
entire lot, block, or tract is not immediately needed for the
right-of-way.
(c) Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property
rights under this section take precedence over all other causes not
involving the public interest in all courts.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.