73-1-6 - Eminent domain -- Purposes.
73-1-6. Eminent domain -- Purposes.
Any person shall have a right of way across and upon public, private and corporate lands,or other rights of way, for the construction, maintenance, repair and use of all necessaryreservoirs, dams, water gates, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, pipelines and areas for setting uppumps and pumping machinery or other means of securing, storing, replacing and conveyingwater for domestic, culinary, industrial and irrigation purposes or for any necessary public use, orfor drainage, upon payment of just compensation therefor, but such right of way shall in all casesbe exercised in a manner not unnecessarily to impair the practical use of any other right of way,highway or public or private road, or to injure any public or private property.
No Change Since 1953