Any incorporated company or body politic, invested with the power of eminent domain under this chapter, by its officers, servants and agents may enter upon lands for the purpose of examining the same, surveying and laying out the lands, ways and easements which it desires to appropriate, provided no injury be done to the owner or possessor of the land; but no company or body politic, under the authority of this section, shall throw open fences or enclosures on any land, or construct its works through or upon the same, or in anywise injure the property of the owner or possessor, without his consent, until it shall have obtained the right so to do in the manner provided in this chapter.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 1. Right of Eminent Domain
§54-1-1. Bodies Which May Exercise Power of Eminent Domain
§54-1-2. Public Uses for Which Private Property May Be Taken or Damaged
§54-1-2a. Notice; Good Faith Purchase
§54-1-3a. Entry by Political Body to Obtain Data; Compensation to Owner
§54-1-4. Restrictions as to Dwelling Houses -- Railroad and Other Internal Improvement Companies
§54-1-5. Same -- Lines for Transportation of Gas, Oil, Coal, etc., and Storage Tanks
§54-1-6. Quantity of Land Acquired
§54-1-8. Estate Acquired; Taxation
§54-1-9. Crossing or Alteration of Course of Works of Another Entity; Civil Action
§54-1-10. Taking Wood and Other Materials and Water; Deposits of Waste; Cutting Trees
§54-1-11. Specific Purposes Not Limitation
§54-1-12. Facilities for Moving Fuel Coal to Coal Fired Steam Electric Power Plants