When it is necessary for the protection of a highway to erect an embankment or dike upon the banks of a stream, and the owner of the stream or of the lands adjacent will not permit town officials to enter upon the lands for this purpose, or requires them to pay a greater sum than in their judgment they ought to pay, the selectmen may take the land following the procedures established in section 923 of this title. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)