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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-45 > Chapter-45-32 > 45-32-32SECTION 45-32-32
§ 45-32-32 Service of notice of taking.– No sum paid into the court or any interest paid on it shall be charged withclerk's fees of any nature. After the filing of the copy of the resolution,plat, and declaration, notice of the taking shall be served upon the owners ofor persons having any estate or interest in the real property by the sheriff orthe sheriff 's deputies of the county in which the person or persons reside, byleaving a copy attested by the secretary of the agency of the resolution anddeclaration with each of the persons personally, or at their last and usualplace of abode in this state with some person living there, and in case theperson or persons do not reside in the county where the property is situated orare absent from this state and have no last and usual place of abode in thecounty occupied by any person, the copy shall be left by the sheriff or thesheriff's deputies of the county where the real property lies with the person,if any, in charge of or having possession of the real property if the person isknown to the officer. Whenever any owner or person entitled to any estate in orany interest in any part of the real property taken resides or is without thestate, the agency shall cause to be served on that person personally, or at hisor her last usual place of abode, a copy attested as prescribed of theresolution and declaration by any disinterested person, which person shall makeaffidavit of the service and of the mode in which, the time within, and theplace at which, the service has been made; or service may be made by theadmission of service by the person on the back of a copy of the resolution anda declaration and by his or her acknowledgment before an officer authorized toadminister oaths under the law of the place where the admission of service isacknowledged.
