Practice question
A covered urgent project has no land classification. The agency proposes an arbitrary remote-city price instead of the statutory adjacent-vicinity comparable basis. Which is correct under Section 7(d)?
- Urgency always authorizes any chosen remote value.
- The prescribed SMV and classification of similar adjacent-vicinity land, or interim BIR zonal basis where applicable, must be used.
- The court cannot examine the stated alternative.
- An agency’s preference automatically is an approved SMV.
- No comparative-land safeguard exists.
Legal references
- RA 12289, Sections 3 and 7-8, amending RA 10752 coverage and its renumbered Sections 7-8 on possession and valuation: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/99855
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