§ 31-25-204 — Acquisition by condemnation

(1) For the purpose of acquiring
lands for parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and
roads, the park commission is authorized, with the approval of the mayor, to select
and, by a suitable proceeding in the name of the city, without the passage of any
ordinance, condemn real estate or, with the approval of the mayor, to purchase any
real estate so selected for one or more parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards,
parkways, avenues, driveways, or roads and to select routes and streets for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of connecting boulevards and
pleasure ways or parkways therein. All such condemnation proceedings shall be in
accordance with the general laws of the state insofar as the same are applicable,
but the benefit to other lands shall be ascertained and assessed.

(2) Payment for any acquisition provided in subsection (1) of this section may
be paid for by special assessments upon all the other real estate, except parks,
pleasure grounds, avenues, boulevards, streets, and roads in such city or partly out
of the proceeds of the sale of the general bonds of the city, in accordance with the
powers conferred by this part 2, and partly by such assessments, as the same may
be determined by the mayor and park commission.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1176, � 1, effective July 1.