§ 92439 Regents Eminent Domain Authority

• •The government can take private land or property if they really need it for something important.
• •They have to pay the owner a fair price for what they take.
• •This is only for big needs, like building roads or schools, not just because they want to.

Imagine the government wants to build a new school, but there’s a house right where they need to put it.

They can legally take that house (after paying the owner fairly), even if the owner doesn’t want to sell. This is called eminent domain.