Sec. 552.011. USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN POWER. A municipality that owns its water system may exercise the power of eminent domain to condemn private property located inside or outside the municipal limits to acquire rights-of-way for digging or excavating canals or for laying water mains or other pipelines to bring water into the municipality for public use.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 402.011 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.76(a)(2), eff. April 1, 2009.
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