2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 17 - THE GENERAL RAILROAD LAW
SECTION 58-17-1160. Acquisition of rights of way around tracks.
Railroad corporations organized under the provisions of this chapter may acquire rights of way, not exceeding seventy-five feet from the center of their track in each direction, and additional land necessary for deep cuts, high fills, borrow pits, streams and highway changes made necessary by the construction of the railroad; provided, that in no case shall the right of way acquired exceed one hundred and fifty feet from the center of the track in each direction. And such corporations may exercise the same powers with relation to such tracks and their depots and crossing other railroads, highways and streams as railroads chartered by the General Assembly.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-962; 1952 Code Section 58-962; 1942 Code Section 8186; 1932 Code Section 8186; Civ. C. '22 Section 4366; Civ. C. '12 Section 2880; Civ. C. '02 Section 1924; 1909 (26) 45.
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