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§2.  Expropriation by state or certain corporations and limited liability companies

Where a price cannot be agreed upon with the owner, any of the following may expropriate needed property:

(1)  The state or its political corporations or subdivisions created for the purpose of exercising any state governmental powers;

(2)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for the construction of railroads, toll roads, or navigation canals;

(3)  Any domestic corporation created for the construction and operation of street railways, urban railways, or inter-urban railways;

(4)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for the construction or operation of waterworks, filtration and treating plants, or sewerage plants to supply the public with water and sewerage;

(5)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for the piping and marketing of natural gas for the purpose of supplying the public with natural gas or any partnership, which is or will be a natural gas company or an intrastate natural gas transporter as defined by federal or state law, composed entirely of such corporations or composed of the wholly owned subsidiaries of such corporations.

(6)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for the purpose of transmitting intelligence by telegraph or telephone;

(7)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for the purpose of generating, transmitting, and distributing or for transmitting or distributing electricity and steam for power, lighting, heating, or other such uses.  The generating plants, buildings, transmission lines, stations, and substations expropriated or for which property was expropriated shall be so located, constructed, operated, and maintained as not to be dangerous to persons or property nor interfere with the use of the wires of other wire using companies or, more than is necessary, with the convenience of the landowners;

(8)  All persons included in the definition of common carrier pipelines as set forth in R.S. 45:251;

(9)  Any domestic or foreign corporation created for piping and marketing of coal or lignite in whatever form or mixture convenient for transportation within a pipeline as otherwise provided for in R.S. 30:721 through 30:723.

(10)  Any domestic or foreign corporation or any partnership composed of such corporations or wholly owned subsidiaries thereof engaged in the piping or marketing of carbon dioxide for use in connection with a secondary or tertiary recovery project for the enhanced recovery of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons approved by the commissioner of conservation.  Property may be so expropriated for the transportation of carbon dioxide for underground injection in connection with such projects.

(11)  Any domestic or foreign limited liability company engaged in any of the activities otherwise provided for in this Section.

Amended by Acts 1966, No. 62, §1; Acts 1974, Ex.Sess. No. 11, §1; eff. Jan. 1, 1975; Acts 1977, No. 452, §1; Acts 1977, No. 561, §2; Acts 1980, No. 116, §1, eff. June 26, 1980; Acts 1981, No. 760, §1; Acts 1999, No. 358, §1, eff. June 16, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 4, §1, eff. May 8, 2001.