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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-45 > Chapter-45-29 > 45-29-5SECTION 45-29-5
§ 45-29-5 Service and publication ofnotice of taking of property. – No sum paid into the court pursuant to § 45-29-4 shall be charged withclerk's fees of any nature. After the filing of the copy, plat, and statement,pursuant to § 45-29-4, notice of the taking of the land, or interest init, shall be served upon the owners of and persons having an estate in andinterested in the land by the sheriff or his deputies of the county in whichthe land, or interest in it, lies, leaving a true and attested copy of thedescription and statement with each of those persons personally, or at theirlast and usual place of abode in this state with some person living there, andin case any of those persons are absent from this state and have no last andusual place of abode in the state occupied by any person, the copy shall beleft with the persons, if any, in charge of or having possession of the land,or interest in it, taken of the absent persons if they are known to theofficer; and after the filing of the resolution, plat, and statement, thesecretary of the authority shall cause a copy of the resolution and statementto be published in some newspaper published in the county where the land, orinterest in it, may be located at least once a week for three (3) successiveweeks.
