Any person operating or constructing or preparing to construct a plant for generating electricity shall have the right to purchase, lease, or condemn rights of way or other easements over the lands of others in order to run power lines, maintain dams, flow backwater, or carry on other activities necessary for constructing and operating such a plant, provided that the person first pays just compensation to the owner of the land to be affected.
History. Ga. L. 1897, p. 68, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 5240; Code 1933, § 36-801.
Cross references.
Granting of easements and rights of way to electric utilities for purposes of producing hydroelectric power from dam sites on property owned by governing authority of recreation system, § 36-64-3.1 .
Law reviews.
For survey article on zoning and land use law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 493 (2007).