§ 1263.610.Agreement to Relocate Structure Or Carry Work On Property Not Taken

Sometimes the cheapest way to compensate an owner is to fix the problem directly instead of writing a bigger check. This section lets a public entity and a property owner agree that the entity itself will do the work. The entity can offer to relocate a structure, or to perform work on property the case is not taking -- including work on a structure -- whenever that job is likely to shrink the compensation the entity would otherwise owe by an amount equal to or greater than the cost of the job.

The logic runs both ways: the owner benefits because the structure gets moved or the work gets done instead of being left to arrange and pay for it out of the award, and the public entity benefits because it is not paying for the same fix twice -- once through cash compensation and again through the owner's own contractor.