Any company incorporated under the laws of this state, or constructing or operating a railway in this state, in addition to other rights conferred, shall have power:
1. To enter, by its servants, upon the real property of any person, for the purpose of selecting an advantageous route for its main line or any branch thereof, or for the purpose of relocating its line, subject to responsibility for all damages resulting therefrom.
2. To acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, all such real and personal property as may be necessary for, or may be given to aid or encourage the construction and maintenance of its railroad and for its buildings and yards.
3. To condemn, in the manner provided by law, a right-of-way with such additional lands as may be necessary for depot grounds or for the purpose of constructing necessary embankments, excavations, ditches, drains and culverts.
4. To cross natural or artificial streams or bodies of water, streets, highways or railroads which its road may intersect, and in such manner as to afford security for life and property and subject to the duty of immediately restoring such course or body of water, street, highway, or railway to its former condition, as nearly as may be.
5. To cross, intersect, join or unite its railroad with any other railroad, either before or after the construction, at any point upon its route, and upon the grounds of such other railroad corporation, with the necessary turnouts, sidings and switches, and other conveniences in furtherance of the objects of its connections, and every corporation whose railroad is or shall be hereafter intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the owners of such new railroad in forming such intersections and connections, and grant facilities therefor.
6. To construct and operate spurs or branch lines of railroad connecting with the main line or any branch thereof, not to exceed 5 miles in length each, though such spurs or branch lines be not named or described in the articles of incorporation, and to relocate any section or sections of its lines between the principal termini, with the same powers as in the case of original or first locations.
[1911 CPA § 685; RL § 5627; NCL § 9174]
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 37.0095 - Persons or agencies who may exercise power of eminent domain; exceptions.
NRS 37.0097 - Unit-owners’ association may not exercise power of eminent domain.
NRS 37.010 - Public uses for which eminent domain may be exercised.
NRS 37.020 - Estates in property subject to condemnation.
NRS 37.038 - Conditions precedent to taking property within historic district.
NRS 37.040 - Conditions precedent to entry of judgment of condemnation; findings.
NRS 37.050 - Location of and entry upon land; damages.
NRS 37.070 - Contents of complaint; inclusion of separate parcels in same or separate proceedings.
NRS 37.080 - All parties in interest may appear.
NRS 37.083 - Default of defendant: Entry; effect.
NRS 37.095 - Restrictions concerning appraisal of real property.
NRS 37.110 - Ascertainment and assessment of damages.
NRS 37.111 - Additional compensation for loss of goodwill.
NRS 37.112 - Valuation of property subject to condemnation as result of public work or project.
NRS 37.115 - Distribution of award among joint defendants by separate proceeding.
NRS 37.130 - New proceedings may be instituted when title found defective.
NRS 37.140 - Damages to be paid within 30 days after judgment; bond for railroad fence.
NRS 37.150 - Award deposited in court; execution; when proceedings may be annulled.
NRS 37.160 - Entry of final order of condemnation on deposit of award; recording; when title vests.
NRS 37.175 - Interest paid by plaintiff; posttrial hearing to determine award of interest.
NRS 37.180 - Abandonment of condemnation proceedings; defendant’s damages for plaintiff’s occupancy.
NRS 37.185 - Party not liable for attorney’s fees of other party; exception.
NRS 37.200 - Rules of practice.
NRS 37.210 - Rights of cities and towns not affected.
NRS 37.220 - Crossings to be made and kept in repair.
NRS 37.230 - Condemnation by railroad companies.
NRS 37.270 - Reversion of property upon repayment of original purchase price; conditions.
NRS 37.280 - Distribution of interest earned from investment of money deposited in court.