STATE LAND LAWS 

 SECS. 249-250 CONDEMNATION RAILWAYS. 



acquired belong to any private party, association, corporation or 

 to the State of Washington, or any municipality thereof; and 

 such power of eminent domain shall be exercised under and by 

 the same procedure as now is or may be hereafter provided by 

 the law of this state for the exercise of the right of eminent do- 

 main by ordinary railroad corporations, except that the United 

 States may exercise such right in the proper court of the United 

 States as well as the proper state court. (Laws '05, p. 180, sec. 

 1 ; sec. 6408 Rem.-Bal. ; 271 sec. 359 Pierce.) 



Procedure in eminent domain by corporations: sec. 921 et seq., 

 Rem.-Bal. 



Eminent domain in aid of reclamation projects: sec. 619, post. 



In aid of navigation: sec. 294, post. 



See sec. 246, supra, and notes. 



SEC. 249. EMINENT DOMAIN TO RAILWAYS, ETC. 



A corporation organized for the construction of any rail- 

 way, macadamized road, plank road, clay road, canal or bridge, 

 shall have a right to enter upon any land, real estate or premises, 

 or any of the lands granted to the State of Washington for 

 school, university or other purposes, between the termini thereof, 

 for the purpose of examining, locating and surveying the line of 

 such road or canal, or the site of such bridge, doing no unneces- 

 sary damage thereby. (Laws '95, p. 146, sec. 1 ; sec. 8739 

 Rem.-Bal.; 405 sec. 83 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '69, p. 343, sec. 1; Code '81, sec. 2455; Laws '88, 

 p. 63, sec. 1. 



See next section, additional. 



Rights of way granted: sec. 215 et seq., ante. 



Cited: 6 Wash. 576; 7 Wash. 151, 167; 31 Wash. 452; 36 Wash. 385; 62 

 Wash. 96 ; 64 Wash. 600. 



SEC. 250. SAME ADDITIONAL POWERS. 



Every corporation organized for the construction of any rail- 

 way, macadamized road, plank road, clay road, canal or bridge, 

 is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, by condemn- 

 ation, land and any interest in land or contract right relating 

 thereto, including any leasehold interest therein and any rights 



