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Texas Utilities Code - Section 163.014. Use Of Eminent Domain

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§ 163.014. USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.  (a) A participating 
entity has the power of eminent domain to be exercised as provided 
by this section.
	(b)  The use of eminent domain authority by a participating 
entity is governed by the law relating to an eminent domain 
proceeding involving a municipality in this state.
	(c)  A participating entity may acquire a fee title to the 
condemned real property.
	(d)  A participating entity may not use eminent domain 
authority to acquire: 
		(1)  an interest in an electric facility that belongs 
to another entity;  or
		(2)  an interest in real property to drill, mine, or 
produce from that property oil, gas, geothermal resources, 
geothermal/geopressured resources, or lignite, coal, sulphur, 
uranium, plutonium, or other minerals that belong to another person 
regardless of whether the material is in place or is in the process 
of being drilled, mined, or produced.
	(e)  Subsection (d) does not affect the authority of a 
participating entity to acquire full title to real property for a 
plant site and any related surface installation or equipment, 
including a cooling reservoir.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.                    

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