RS 2563 - Right of eminent domain
The state department of public works is hereby granted the power of eminent domain and the right to expropriate any and all lands, flowage rights, servitudes, and rights of way necessary and convenient for the construction of the said dam, spillway, reservoir, storage basins, locks, levees, flumes, conduits, spillways or other structures necessary, suitable or convenient in connection with the construction thereof, as well as for the creation of the said lake, impoundment and reservoir within the boundaries as hereinabove set forth.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §13.