Our colleague Mark M. Murakami has published the first in a series of posts on his blog about legal issues surrounding the multi-billion dollar Honolulu rail project, “Honolulu Rail and the Uniform Relocation Act.”
Because the HART rail project will involve federal funds, federal laws and regulations provide property owners (and their tenants) with additional statutory and regulatory protections above what is required by the Fifth Amendment, the Hawaii Constitution or Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 101. This is the first post in a series about Honolulu Rail.
Title 42, Chapter 61 of the U.S. Code is entitled: “The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies for Federal and Federally Asssisted Programs” and provides the statutory authority for the regulations which provide the details of the various benefits of the Uniform Relocation Act program.
Yes, his blog is Hawaiioceanlaw.com, but maritime and admiralty law is just one of Mark’s talents (he’s also the “Eminent Domain and Condemnation Lawyer of the Year 2013” for Honolulu, for example).
For all of our posts on the rail project and related topics, start here.