Wherever any municipal corporation shall seek to condemn lands to be used in establishing, widening, extending, or otherwise improving its public streets, alleys, highways, parks, parkways, or boulevards, it shall have full power to condemn the fee of the land necessary to be taken, by paying the fair cash market value of the land to be fixed in the manner provided by law where private property is taken for public use.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities
Chapter 31 - Streets and Other Public Improvements
§ 7-31-102. Duty to Keep Board Functioning
§ 7-31-103. Notice of Tort Action Based on Condition of Streets
§ 7-31-104. Establishment of Streets in Extension
§ 7-31-105. Construction of Sidewalks Authorized
§ 7-31-106. Unlawful Use of Sidewalks
§ 7-31-107. Condemnation for Streets
§ 7-31-108. Assessment of Damages by Freeholders
§ 7-31-109. Opening of Street on Payment of Damages
§ 7-31-110. Failure to Open Street on Condemnation