{"id":5093,"date":"2010-08-26T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:08:03","slug":"if-you-like-eminent-domain-youll-love-montgomerys-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/if-you-like-eminent-domain-youll-love-montgomerys-version\/","title":{"rendered":"If you like Eminent Domain, you&#8217;ll love Montgomery&#8217;s version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/08\/26\/eminent-domain-by-any-other-name-still-stinks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Walsh<\/a> reports on an Alabama city&#8217;s even-more-tyrannical-than-eminent-domain law:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have 45 days to demolish your house, or the city will do it for you.  Oh, and you\u2019re paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>This is happening right now in Montgomery, Ala., and here is how it works: The city decides it doesn\u2019t like your property for one reason or another, so it declares it a \u201cpublic nuisance.\u201d  It mails you a notice that you have 45 days to demolish your property, at your expense, or the city will do it for you (and, of course, bill you).<\/p>\n<p>Your tab with the city will constitute a lien on your property, and if you don\u2019t pay it within 30 days (or pay your installments on time; if you owe over $10,000, you can work out a deal to pay back the city for destroying your home over a period of time, with interest), the city can sell your now-vacant land to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IJ\/status\/22182101202\" target=\"_blank\">Institute For Justice<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Walsh reports on an Alabama city&#8217;s even-more-tyrannical-than-eminent-domain law: Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have 45 days to demolish your house, or the city will do it for you. Oh, and you\u2019re paying for it. This is happening right now in Montgomery, Ala., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,13],"tags":[235,501,217],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-alabama","tag-eminentdomain","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1k9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}