Indiana § 8-4-7-7 - Acquisition of property; eminent domain
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 8-4-7-7 — Acquisition of property; eminent domain, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 8-4-7-7. Acquisition of property; eminent domain
Sec. 7. Any such union railway company may erect, construct, rebuild and replace, in connection with its tracks, union depots, car sheds and such other structures and appliances as the company may deem necessary to facilitate the transaction of its business, and the business of its proprietary companies and of other railroad companies whose tracks may connect therewith, and which may acquire from such union railway company the right to use said union tracks and their appliances. And such union company shall also have power to locate, construct, rebuild, keep up, change and repair such union railroad and its tracks, side-tracks, switches, depots, sheds and other structures and appliances, and to take conveyances and releases in fee simple or otherwise of rights of way and of such real estate as it may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and may condemn, in fee simple or otherwise, so much real estate and such rights of way as it may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them; also, to construct, own, maintain and operate union passenger stations, local freight stations, transfer and connecting tracks, between the property of such union company and property and tracks of other railroad companies.
Formerly: Acts 1885, c.20, s.7.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 8-4-7-7 ("Acquisition of property; eminent domain") is part of the Indiana Code, the codified statutory law of Indiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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