Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 831x


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 831x. Condemnation proceedings; institution by Corporation; venue

      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.



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