Street railroad companies, telegraph, telephone, water, gas, electric, power, canal, pipeline companies, and all other companies formed for constructing, operating, or maintaining any work of internal improvement or public utility may acquire by condemnation for a right-of-way for their railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations, or works, lands for ways and rights-of-way not exceeding 100 feet in width throughout the entire length of such railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations, or works, together with the right to cut down such trees as might, by falling, injure the same, together with the necessary lands, other than lands for ways and rights-of-way, for the construction or installation of facilities, apparatus, or equipment necessary for the operation of such railways, lines, tunnels, canals, dams, pipelines, excavations, or works.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.
Chapter 21 - Certain Powers, Rights, and Duties of Corporations.
Article 2 - Corporate Powers of Eminent Domain.
Section 10A-21-2.02 - Condemnation for Ways and Rights-of-Way, etc., by Railroad Companies.
Section 10A-21-2.03 - Railroads Authorized to Transfer Abandoned Rights-of-Way.
Section 10A-21-2.06 - Construction Through Curtilage of House, etc., Without Consent Prohibited.
Section 10A-21-2.08 - Condemnation of Lands for Depots, Yards, and Tracks by Railroads.
Section 10A-21-2.09 - Rights of Condemning Corporations in Selection of Routes and Sites.