Class Concept
Positions in this class may have responsibility for directing activities to ensure that right-of-way implications are properly considered in highway location and design and that right of ways are established and maintained. Work may involve planning, coordinating, and scheduling a program of right-of-way acquisition including appraising property, negotiating with property owners and obtaining right-of-wayagreements, condemning right-of-way which cannot be obtained through negotiation, and preparation of documents and vouchers in securing federal reimbursement in highway rights of way costs and claims for payments to affected property owners. Work may also require extensive public contact with landowners, utility company representatives, State and local government officials, and other highway officials.
Positions may plan the State highway right-of-way program; implement policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Transportation to be followed in acquiring rights of way; may also coordinate right-of-wa ywork with other highway activities and maintain record of surplus real estate acquired in connection with right-of-wayacquisition and arranges for its final sale or other disposition. They may determine action to be taken on difficult appraisal and negotiation problems as well as issue instructions for the operation of the Appraisal, Negotiation, Utility, and Administration Sections.
