2004 Minnesota Statutes

     453A.06 Eminent domain. 

    Except as otherwise provided by this section, a municipal 
 gas agency may acquire all real or personal property that it 
 deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of sections 
 453A.01 to 453A.12, whether in fee simple absolute or a lesser 
 interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of 
 eminent domain in accordance with chapter 117.  A municipal gas 
 agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect to any 
 real or personal property owned by any person as part of a 
 system, whether existing or under construction, or being 
 planned, of facilities for the exploration, production, storage, 
 distribution or transmission of gas.  The authority of a 
 municipal gas agency to acquire real or personal property by 
 condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain 
 shall be a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall 
 exhaust it. 

    HIST: 1979 c 140 s 6