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§831x Condemnation proceedings; institution by Corporation; venue

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12A— - TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY › § 831x

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Corporation may sue to take land, easements, or rights-of-way it needs. The case must be in the U.S. district court where the property is, and that court can give full ownership to the United States.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §831x

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The Corporation may cause proceedings to be instituted for the acquisition by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights-of-way which, in the opinion of the Corporation, are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The proceedings shall be instituted in the United States district court for the district in which the land, easement, right-of-way, or other interest, or any part thereof, is located, and such court shall have full jurisdiction to divest the complete title to the property sought to be acquired out of all persons or claimants and vest the same in the United States in fee simple, and to enter a decree quieting the title thereto in the United States of America.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–536 repealed six paragraphs following initial paragraph which provided as follows: appointment of three commissioners, oath as to absence of interest, and per diem for services and subsistence, and transportation expenses; duties of commissioners as to valuation of lands, conduct of hearings, taking of evidence, administration of oaths, subpoena of witnesses, submission of report as to value of land, and notice of award to parties; hearing de novo of exceptions to award by three Federal district judges and judicial award; disposition upon record after appeal from decision of judges; passage of title and possession to property and

Enforcement

by writ of dispossession; and legal representatives for minors, insane or incompetents, and estates of deceased, or guardians ad litem for wards. 1952—Act July 12, 1952, increased the commissioners’ per diem from $15 to $30, their sustenance from $5 to $10 a day, and allowed them 7 cents mileage.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1968 Amendment Pub. L. 90–536, § 2, Sept. 28, 1968, 82 Stat. 885, provided that: “The amendment made by this Act [amending this section] shall be effective only with respect to condemnation proceedings initiated after thirty days following the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 28, 1968].”

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 831x

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73