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2018 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 54. EMINENT DOMAIN.
ARTICLE 1. RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
§54-1-4. Restrictions as to dwelling houses -- Railroad and other internal improvement companies.
Universal Citation: WV Code § 54-1-4 (2018)
§54-1-4. Restrictions as to dwelling houses -- Railroad and other internal improvement companies.
No railroad company, or other company of internal improvement, in locating and constructing its lines shall invade the dwelling house of any person, or any space within sixty feet thereof, without the consent of the owner, unless necessary so to do in passing through a narrow gorge, defile or narrow pass, or to avoid undesirable curves, angles, and grades, in the construction of its line, or to eliminate such curves, angles, and grades in any line heretofore constructed. This prohibition shall not apply to the territory within any municipal corporation, nor to the acquisition by condemnation of land for any purpose of the company other than right of ways for its main lines and transmission lines.
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