Telephone, telegraph or street railway companies, may acquire a right-of-way across railroads by condemnation by proceeding in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. If a right-of-way across a railroad has been condemned by a telegraph, telephone or street railway company, the railroad company shall be advised of the manner in which such telephone or telegraph company proposes to erect its poles and string its wires or place plant facilities underground, and in case of a street railway company, it shall give the railroad company notice of the manner in which it proposes to construct its tracks across the railroad, and if the railroad company shall object thereto, the public service commission shall have jurisdiction, upon complaint filed with it by the railroad company, to enter an order directing how the poles and wires or underground plant, if a telephone or telegraph company, shall be erected and strung or placed underground, and how tracks, if a street railway company, shall be constructed, and the railroad shall be crossed as ordered, and in no other manner.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
§ 11-27-1. Who may exercise right of eminent domain
§ 11-27-3. Court of eminent domain
§ 11-27-5. Complaint to condemn; parties; preference
§ 11-27-7. Filing complaint; lis pendens; time and place of hearing; notice; pleadings
§ 11-27-11. Operation of court
§ 11-27-13. Separate trials; to injury or to court
§ 11-27-15. Dismissal; grounds; appeal
§ 11-27-19. Evidence of value; award and interest
§ 11-27-21. Damage to remainder; determination
§ 11-27-27. Transfer of title; payment and deposits previously made
§ 11-27-31. Property in more than one county
§ 11-27-33. Certain takings of property excluded
§ 11-27-35. Rights-of-way across railroads
§ 11-27-37. Right of action for expenses
§ 11-27-39. Surveys; right to enter land; liability for damages
§ 11-27-41. Takings by hydroelectric power companies
§ 11-27-45. Power lines across railroads
§ 11-27-48. Information from Public Service Commission or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
§ 11-27-51. Proceedings filed before 1972 not affected by chapter