Taking property for public purposes

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§ 5-1301. Taking property for public purposes

The City Council, upon notice to persons affected, may lay out, make, maintain, alter, establish, install, construct, discontinue, or repair the following: any street, road, highway, lane, alley, transportation path, or sidewalk; any heat facilities and devices or other measures to conserve or generate energy or promote efficient energy use in the City; any public facilities, parks, playing fields, and other improvements deemed necessary by the Council; any municipal building; any water source, treatment, storage, delivery, sale, transmission, and distribution facilities within and without the City; and any sewer and storm water collection, transmission, separation, treatment, and disposal facilities as the public health or the public good shall require. (Amended 2011, No. M-6, § 6, eff. May 6, 2011; 2013, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)


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