This C.R.A.P. Simply Isn’t Constitutional
By Chuck Muth
I’m no lawyer; nor do I play one on TV…but I can read plain English, including much of what appears in the Nevada Constitution. For example, take Article 1 (“Declaration of Rights”), Section 22 (“Eminent Domain Proceedings”)…
Section 22-1 clearly states: “Public use shall not include the direct or indirect transfer of any interest in property taken in an eminent domain proceeding from one private party to another private party.”
Yet what the city or North Las Vegas is contemplating abusing its eminent domain powers to seize a performing home loan from one private group of investors and then transferring that home loan to another private group of investors…providing the homeowner can qualify for a new loan.
If not, the homeowner could very well end up homeless!
Section 22-4 clearly states: “In all eminent domain actions, just compensation shall be defined as that sum of money, necessary to place the property owner back in the same position, monetarily, without any governmental offsets, as if the property had never been taken.”
But
here’s how this C.R.A.P. (Community Resolution Assistance Program) will work: