CNMI AG: U.S. Military Could Use Eminent Domain To Take Land Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:00
Manibusan says bill preventing leases would have not practical effect
By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, June 11, 2015) – Attorney General Edward Manibusan says the bill introduced by Senate Floor Leader Arnold I. Palacios cannot prevent the U.S. military from taking the land it desires through eminent domain the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
Palacios’s Senate Bill 19-42 proposes to prohibit the Department of Public Lands from leasing any public land for military live-fire or bombing activity.