70-31-311. Relocation payments and assistance. For any project that results in the displacement of a person from his home, business, or farm and for which federal financial assistance may be available to pay all or any part of the cost of displacement, an entity of the state or any public or private entity that has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain under state law is authorized to provide relocation assistance and to make relocation payments to the full extent permitted by the federal relocation assistance law, 42 U.S.C. 4601, et seq., as amended. The entity is authorized to do what may be necessary or required to obtain for property owners the full benefit of federal relocation assistance, including the adoption of methods of administration as may be required by federal law or rules to carry out the operation of relocation assistance.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 374, L. 1989.