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Dear Ms. LeBas:

Your office has requested the Attorney General to render an opinion concerning the utilization of "quick take" procedures under an existing cooperative endeavor agreement between the Division of Administration and the City of Denham Springs relative to the Range Avenue Corridor Project.

The specific question to be addressed in this opinion request is whether the same statutes that were held to authorize the use of "quick take" procedures in the recent decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court inCity of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge vs. JohncaProperties, L.L.C., 2001…