17-618. Eminent domain, exercise by sundry corporations and partnerships. Lands may be appropriated for the use of macadam-road, plank-road, hospital corporation or association, telegraph and telephone corporations, electric, hydraulic, irrigating, milling and manufacturing corporations using power, oil companies, pipeline companies, and for the piping of gas in the same manner as is provided in K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive, and any macadam-road, plank-road, telegraph and telephone corporations, hydraulic, irrigating, oil company, pipeline company, gas company, partnership holding a certificate of convenience as a public utility issued by the state corporation commission, milling or manufacturing corporation using power desiring the right to dam or take water from any stream, to conduct water in canals or raceways or pipes, or to conduct compressed air in pipes, or to conduct oil in pipes or conduct gas in pipes, or transmit power or communications by shafting, belting, or belting and pulleys, or ropes and pulleys, or by electrical current, or by compressed air, may obtain such right or the right-of-way for all necessary canals, raceways, pipes, shafting, belting and pulleys, ropes and pulleys or wires or cables in manner as aforesaid; and such canals, raceways, pipes, shafting, belting, belting and pulleys, ropes and pulleys or wires or cables may be laid, carried or stretched on, through or over any land or lot, or along or upon any stream of water, using so much of the water thereof as may be needed for any of the purposes aforesaid, or through any street or alley or public ground of any city of the second or third class: Provided, That no such canal or raceway shall be located through any street or alley or any public ground of any city without the consent of the municipal authorities thereof: Provided further, That it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to locate or construct any irrigating canal or raceway along or upon any stream of water or take and use the water of any stream in such manner as to interfere with or in any wise hinder, delay or injure any milling or irrigating improvements already constructed or located along or upon any stream of water, or to diminish the supply of water flowing to or through any established irrigating canal: Provided further, That in case of the erection of a dam, the report of the commissioners, instead of defining the quantity and boundaries of the land overflowed, shall designate particularly the height of such dam.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 88; L. 1871, ch. 64, § 1; L. 1876, ch. 58, § 1; L. 1891, ch. 85, § 1; L. 1899, ch. 95, § 1; L. 1901, ch. 128, § 1; L. 1917, ch. 122, § 1; R.S. 1923, 17-618; L. 1947, ch. 183, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 234, § 37; Jan. 1, 1964.