§ 453.56 — Eminent Domain
Plain-Language Summary
A municipal power agency can use eminent domain to take private property needed for power generation and transmission. However, it cannot take property that is already part of another utility's existing, planned, or under-construction system.
453.56 EMINENT DOMAIN.
Except as otherwise provided by this section, a municipal power agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of sections 453.51 to 453.62, whether in fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of eminent domain in accordance with chapter 117. A municipal power agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect to any real or personal property owned by any person as part of a system, whether existing, under construction, or being planned, of facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power. The authority of a municipal power agency to acquire real or personal property by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall exhaust it.
History:
History: History:
1976 c 313 s 6