State requirement wastes Orange County time, money, paper
“Douglas Manning, assistant county attorney, requested action from Orange County Commissioners’ Court for the submission of a report on eminent domain authority. The report has to be filed by Dec. 31 to the state comptroller to retain rights to secure property by eminent domain. Manning said it was a requirement that came out of the last state legislative session.
“I’m still quite puzzled as to why the legislature did this, but they required every political subdivision of the State of Texas, from counties, all the way down to municipal utility districts to submit a report to the comptroller by Dec. 31, detailing every statute in existence in the State of Texas that gives that entity eminent domain authority. If we don’t submit this report, we lose our ability to acquire property by eminent domain as a matter of statute,” said Manning.”
The Record 4 December 2012.