Tennessee § 29-17-601 - Coast and geodetic survey.

§ 29-17-601. Coast and geodetic survey.

Any person employed under an act of congress of the United States, passed on August 6, 1947, and of the supplements thereto, or under the direction of congress, to provide charts and related information for the safe navigation of marine and air commerce and for other purposes, may enter upon lands within this state for the purpose of exploring, triangulating, leveling, surveying, and of doing any other act which may be necessary to carry out the objects of such laws, and may erect any works, stations, buildings, and appendages requisite for that purpose, doing no unnecessary injury thereby. Acts 1877, ch. 24, § 1; Shan., § 1877; Code 1932, § 3142; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-1511; T.C.A. § 29-17-501 ; Acts 2006, ch. 863, § 1. Compiler's Notes. This section formerly referred to the act of congress “passed the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven” and for its purposes contained the words “to form a geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and to furnish triangulation points for state surveys.” That Act of February 10, 1807, which created the geodetic survey for the purposes indicated in the former language of this section has been repealed and the Act of August 6, 1947, referred to in the present section, created the coast and geodetic survey as the present successor to the former geodetic survey, for the purposes shown in the present section. For act of congress of August 6, 1947 see 33 U.S.C. § 883 a et seq. Former part 6 of this chapter, §§ 29-17-601 — 29-17-613 , concerning actions in rem, was transferred to title 29, ch. 17, part 7 in 2006. Acts 2006, ch. 863, § 25, provided that the amendment by that act shall apply only to eminent domain or condemnation proceedings initiated on or after July 1, 2006. Cross-References. Applicability of part to metropolitan port authorities, § 7-5-108 . Injuring property of coast and geodetic survey, penalty, § 39-14-408 . Private property not to be taken for public use without just compensation, Tenn. Const., art. I, § 21. Tennessee system of coordinates, title 66, ch. 6. Collateral References. Federal government, power as to exercise of eminent domain by, exclusively under state authority. 143 A.L.R. 1040 . Injunction against exercise of power of eminent domain. 93 A.L.R.2d 465. Right to condemn property owned or used by private educational, charitable, or religious organization. 80 A.L.R.3d 833.