Section 10-5-4

Condemnation of ways and rights-of-way by companies constructing, operating or maintaining internal improvement or public utility.

Street railroad companies, telegraph, telephone, water, gas, electric, power, canal, pipeline companies and all other companies formed for constructing, operating or maintaining any work of internal improvement or public utility may acquire by condemnation for a right-of-way for their railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations or works, lands for ways and rights-of-way not exceeding 100 feet in width throughout the entire length of such railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations or works, together with the right to cut down such trees as might, by falling, injure the same, together with the necessary lands, other than lands for ways and rights-of-way, for the construction or installation of facilities, apparatus or equipment necessary for the operation of such railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations or works.

(Code 1907, §3486; Code 1923, §7020; Code 1940, T. 10, §75; Acts 1973, No. 1063, p. 1777, §2.)