1. In any condemnation proceedings instituted by the state department of transportation and pending on or filed subsequent to January 1, 1968, in any court of the state, under chapter 6B, wherein the property owner has served a proper notice of appeal on the applicant for condemnation within the statutory period, but has failed to serve notice of appeal on a lienholder within the statutory period as required by section 6B.18, such failure shall not deprive the court of jurisdiction insofar as the property owner isconcerned, unless a lienholder can show prejudice thereby, and in such instances the appeal, as itaffects the property owner, is legalized and validated. 2. Any award of damages and judgment for costs, in any such proceeding, which has been setaside or vacated, by reason of the failure of the property owner to serve notice ofappeal on a lienholder within the statutory period required under section 6B.18, shall be reinstated by the court where such awardandjudgment was entered afternotice andhearing, as prescribed by the court, and after a finding that such lienholder will not be prejudiced thereby.
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