Legal Opinion
Ship Creek Hydraulic Syndicate v. State, Department of Transportation & Public Facilities
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 29, 1984No. 7822PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RABINO WITZ, Justice.
Until 1953, the Territory of Alaska was required to file a complaint and obtain a court order for possession before it could use a landowner’s property for a highway project. Sections 57-7-1 to 57-7-23 ACLA 1949. In 1953, the Territorial Legislature authorized what has become known as the “quick-take” procedure, in which title to the property passes upon the filing of a “declaration of taking” and such matters as the necessity for a taking and the fair market value of the property taken are left for later determination. Ch. 90, SLA 1953. Twenty-two years later,…
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