§ 35-3-111 — Eminent domain; manner of exercise; ascertaining damage to property

Whenever the board of trustees of any sanitary and improvement
district shall by order determine to make any public improvement
under the provisions of this act which shall require that
private property be taken or damaged, the district may cause the
damage therefor to be ascertained as nearly as may be according
to the provisions of law for the appropriation of right-of-way
by railway companies.