§111-4  Replacement housing.  (a)  Inaddition to any amount authorized in this chapter, the state agency involved inacquiring any real property shall make a payment to the owner of real propertyimproved by a single-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling actuallyowned and occupied by the owner for not less than one year prior to the firstwritten offer by the state agency for the acquisition of such property.  Suchpayment, not to exceed $15,000, shall be the amount, if any, which when addedto the acquisition payment, equals the average price required for a comparabledwelling determined, in accordance with standards established by the stateagency to be a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling adequate to accommodate thedisplaced owner, reasonably accessible to public services and places ofemployment, and available on the private market.  Such payment shall be madeonly to a displaced owner who purchases and occupies a dwelling within one yearsubsequent to the date on which the owner is required to move from the dwellingon the real property acquired for public purposes.

(b)  In addition to any amount authorized inthis chapter, the state agency shall make a payment to any individual or familydisplaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under subsection(a) which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such individual orfamily for not less than ninety days prior to the first written offer by thestate agency for acquisition of such property.  Such payment, not to exceed $4,000,shall be the amount which is necessary to enable such person to lease or rentfor a period not to exceed two years or to make the downpayment on the purchaseof a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards adequate to accommodatesuch individual or family in areas not generally less desirable in regard topublic utilities and public and commercial facilities. [L 1970, c 166, §4; gench 1985; am L 1988, c 95, §1]