Any such independent school district or board of trustees is hereby authorized to acquire property real or personal in any manner in which property may be acquired by any person or corporation, and in addition thereto any such independent school district acting for itself or for such board of trustees, may acquire by eminent domain the fee simple title to any property within the corporate limits of such independent school district which is needed for such purposes in the discretion of such governing body. The procedure prescribed for railroad companies in Title 66, Chapter 2, Oklahoma Statutes 1951, shall be followed in acquiring property by eminent domain.
Laws 1947, p. 518, § 7.