8-1-4: RIGHT OF TOWN TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY OF DISFRANCHISED SERVICE 1 :
The town shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain all poles, lines, fixtures, pipelines, mains, and appurtenances of whatever nature of any electric company, telegraph company, telephone company, gas company, water company, television distributing company, radio distributing company, transportation company and of any other public utility company, association or corporation, so providing or undertaking to provide and furnish any of such public utility services within the corporate limits of the town when such public utility, company, association, corporation or otherwise is not then and there the holder of a franchise granted by the town to so provide such services. (1987 Code § 12-4)

 

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1. For authority of town to exercise power of eminent domain, see WS § 15-1-103.