6A.9 - ADDITIONAL PURPOSES.
6A.9 ADDITIONAL PURPOSES.
The department of transportation or a railway corporation may, by
condemnation or otherwise, acquire lands for the following additional
purposes:
1. For necessary additional depot grounds or yards.
2. For constructing a track or tracks to any mine, quarry, gravel
pit, manufacturing plant, warehouse, or mercantile establishment.
3. For additional or new right-of-way for constructing double
track, reducing or straightening curves, changing grades, shortening
or relocating portions of the line, and for excavations, embankments,
or places for depositing waste earth.
4. For the preservation of abandoned railroad right-of-way for
future railroad use. Section History: Early Form
[R60, § 1314; C73, § 1241, 1242; C97, § 1995, 1996, 1998; S13, §
1995, 1998; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7811; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66,
71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 471.9] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 121, § 10
C93, § 6A.9
2009 Acts, ch 97, §2