Mining, manufacturing, and quarrying corporations may construct and operate to, and from, their mines, furnaces, mills, factories, quarries, or other works, railways, tramways, canals, tunnels, underground passages, or roads whereby connections may be made to, and from, their principal places of business, mines, furnaces, mills, quarries, or other works and any public highways, turnpike, macadamized, plank, or other graded road, railroad, or navigable waters, or to or with their mines, ore beds, coking, or cooling grounds, timberlands, canals, or aqueducts to or from their mills, factories, furnaces, quarries, other works, or any water or watercourses, and may transport as common carriers freight and passengers on any railroad, other roads, canals, or aqueducts constructed or purchased by them, taking reasonable compensation therefor.
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.