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Chapter 12.44 <br />RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE <br />Sections <br />12.44.010 Acquisition generally. <br />12.44.020 Preliminary activities. <br />12.44.030 Appraisal methods and procedures Review. <br />12.44.040 Just compensation for property - Establishment procedure. <br />12.44.050 Purchase - Additional requirements - Unsuccessful negotiation. <br />12,44.060 Donation - Additional requirements. <br />12.44.070 Eminent domain proceedings - Board of county commissioners authority. <br />12.44.080 Disposition of salvageable items - County engineer responsibility. <br />12.44.090 Relocation assistance. <br />12.44.100 Funds available from government agencies - Compliance with agency guidelines required. <br />12.44.010 Acquisition generally. <br />1. Rights -of -way for Kittitas County roads are acquired generally as follows: <br />a. Dedications in accordance with applicable Kittitas County ordinances; <br />b. Donation by the landowner and acceptance by the county engineer acting <br />for the board of county commissioners; <br />c. Purchase by the county engineer acting for the board of county <br />commissioners; <br />d. Condemnation through eminent domain proceedings instituted by the <br />board of county commissioners; <br />e. Transfer from another governmental agency. <br />2. The determination of the manner of acquisition of rights -of -way is made on a project - <br />by -project basis by the board of county commissioners. <br />3. Rights -of -way for projects funded in whole or in part by federal funds, or which are <br />anticipated to be funded in whole or in part by federal funds at future stages of <br />development, as determined by the board of county commissioners, will be acquired in <br />accordance with Public Law 91-646, "Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property <br />Acquisition Policies Act of 1970" and RCW 8.26. "Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real <br />Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1971 ". (Ord. RD-40-76 (part), 1976). <br />12.44.020 Preliminary activities. <br />1. When a determination has been made that rights -of -way for any project will be <br />acquired in accordance with the foregoing acts, the procedures set forth in this section <br />and Sections 12.44.030 through 12,44.100 shall be utilized. <br />2. Preliminary Activities. The county engineer shall prepare and/or obtain the following: <br />a. Right-of-way maps delineating: <br />i. Individual ownerships, <br />ii. Individual parcels of right-of-way, <br />iii. Right-of-way parcel identification numbers, <br />iv. Existing ground or road profile and designed road profile, <br />when applicable, <br />