Section 372:23 Taking for Yards, Etc.
The proprietors of a railroad may take and hold such land as may be necessary for yards, side tracks, fuel sheds, repair shops, turntables, gravel pits, engine, car and freight houses and depots, for making provisions to supply their buildings and engines with water, and for the purpose of changing or diverting the course of streams, where necessary, for the purpose of properly constructing, maintaining or protecting their railroad, by filing a location thereof and giving notice as provided for filing the location of a railroad.
Source. 1871, 47:1. 1878, 41:1. GL 160:29, 30. 1883, 84:1. PS 158:26, 28. 1901, 111:1. PL 248:23. RL 298:23. 1951, 203:57, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.