§ 1-26-503 — Public use required; other acquisitions

(a) Nothing in this act requires that the power of eminent
domain be exercised to acquire property. Whether property
necessary for public use is to be acquired by purchase, other
means or by eminent domain is a decision left to the discretion
of the person authorized to acquire the property.
(b) Subject to any other statute relating to the
acquisition of property, any person or public entity authorized
to acquire property for a particular use by eminent domain may
also acquire the property for the use by grant, purchase, lease,
gift, devise, contract or other means.