Services

Right-of-Way is comprised of the following sections:

Administration: 402-479-4761

• Right-of-Way provides all Department real estate services.
  
  

Appraisal: 402-479-4478

• Creating and reviewing appraisals and valuation documents for all right-of-way needed to support construction and maintenance programs.
• Creating and reviewing appraisals and valuation documents needed for the disposal of excess real estate including access rights and also for Highway Beautification.
• Assisting the Department’s Legal Staff in making decisions regarding settlement, appeals, etc., on eminent domain cases and providing expert testimony as needed.
• Providing oversight of LPA prepared cost estimates, appraisals, waiver valuations and appraisal reviews for compliance with both Federal and State laws, rules, and regulations as applicable.

Highway Beautification: 402-479-4463

• Reviewing all applications for advertising signs, billboards and junkyards to determine if the applicant qualifies for a permit and issue said permit upon qualification.
• Working with owners of illegal signs and junkyards to take corrective measures to alter the deficiency so it is legal or to remove the sign or junkyards.
• Coordinating required legal action with the Attorney General’s staff for illegal signs and junkyards.

Property Management: 402-479-4770

• Preparing Right of Way Certificates.
• Managing, leasing and selling surplus land.
• Filing corridor protection plans and managing the corridor protection program. 
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Design: 402-479-3726

• Checking of right of way surveys to ensure compliance with appropriate standards, adequate coverage for project, and suitability of use.
• Creating projects in the Automated Right of Way Management System (ARMS).
• Determining ROW needs for projects.
• Designing and preparing right of way plans to identify property to be acquired for highway use.
• Developing legal descriptions to be used in instruments of conveyance.
  
  

Negotiations: 402-479-4488

• Preparing all documents needed to present the offers and close the transactions.
• Contacting all property owners and tenants to make the purchase offers and to inform the owners of their rights, duties and obligations.
• Processing all payments of any kind made by the Division.

Relocation & Local Assistance Section (LPA Projects and Oversite): 402-479-4484

• Preparing all documents needed to present the offers and close the transactions.
• Contacting all property owners and tenants to make the purchase offers and to inform the owners of their rights, duties and obligations.
• Preparing relocation assistance studies to determine eligibility for and amount of relocation assistance payments.
• Monitoring Local Public Agency’s right of way activities to ensure compliance with applicable Federal and State law and rules and regulations.

 For a full listing of section duties please see the Functional Statement on our About page.