16-7-103. Relocation payments to displaced persons.

(a) Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by a displacing agency will result in the displacement of any person, the displacing agency shall provide for the payment to the displaced person of:

(i) Actual reasonable expenses in moving himself, his family, business, farm operation or other personal property;

(ii) Actual direct losses of tangible personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing a business or farm operation, but not to exceed an amount equal to the reasonable expenses that would have been required to relocate the property, as determined by the agency;

(iii) Actual reasonable expenses in searching for a replacement business or farm; and

(iv) Actual reasonable expenses necessary to reestablish a displaced farm, nonprofit organization or small business at its new site, in accordance with criteria to be established by the agency.

(b) Any displaced person eligible for payments under subsection (a) of this section who is displaced from a dwelling and who elects to accept the payments authorized by this subsection in lieu of the payments authorized by subsection (a) of this section may receive an expense and dislocation allowance, determined according to a schedule established by the agency.

(c) Any displaced person eligible under criteria established by the agency for payments under subsection (a) of this section who is displaced from his place of business or from his farm operation may elect to accept a fixed payment authorized by this subsection in lieu of the payment authorized by subsection (a) of this section. The fixed payment shall be determined by the agency and shall not be less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00). A person whose sole business at the displacement dwelling is the rental of the property to others shall not qualify for a payment under this subsection.

(i) Repealed by Laws 1989, ch. 241, § 2.

(ii) Repealed by Laws 1989, ch. 241, § 2.