§ 32-24-4-1 — Public utilities

(a) A person, firm, partnership, limited liability
company, or corporation authorized to do business in Indiana and
authorized to:
(1) furnish, supply, transmit, transport or distribute electrical
energy, gas, oil, petroleum, water, heat, steam, hydraulic power,
or communications by telegraph or telephone to the public or to
any town or city; or
(2) construct, maintain or operate turnpikes, toll bridges, canals,
public landings, wharves, ferries, dams, aqueducts, street
railways, or interurban railways for the use of the public or for the
use of any town or city;
may take, acquire, condemn, and appropriate land, real estate, or any
interest in the land or real estate to accomplish the essential delivery of
services described in subdivisions (1) and (2).
(b) A person described in subsection (a) has all accommodations,
rights, and privileges necessary to accomplish the use for which the
property is taken. A person acting under subsection (a) may use
acquired, condemned, or appropriated land to construct railroad siding,
switch, or industrial tracks connecting its plant or facilities with the
tracks of any common carrier.
[Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-11-3-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.163-2006, SEC.16.