11575. For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating
the project and for the purpose of providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities to be taken or destroyed, the department
may acquire for and in the name of the state, by gift, exchange,
purchase, or eminent domain proceedings, within or without the state,
any and all water, water rights, rights-of-way, easements, land,
electric power, power resources and facilities, and property or
appurtenances thereto of every kind and description and any
appurtenances to any such property as the department determines to be
required and necessary for the proper construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project and for effectuating the purposes and
objects to be accomplished by the construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project, and for providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities taken or destroyed.
11576. The cost of contruction of the project includes the cost and
expense of acquiring property and any such cost and expense is an
integral part of the capital cost of the project.
11577. Nothing in this chapter shall in any way interfere with or
abridge the right of the department or of any state agency to acquire
any property through the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
11578. In any lease, easement, or right of entry agreement entered
into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant
of easement, right-of-way, or right of entry in real property for the
purpose of exploration for, or construction, operation, or
maintenance of, water projects, or for other investigations or data
collection, the department may agree to indemnify and hold harmless
the lessor or grantor and may agree to repair or pay for any damage
caused by reason of the uses authorized by such lease, easement,
right-of-way or right of entry. Insurance may be purchased by the
Department of General Services, upon request of the department, to
protect the department against loss or expense arising out of such a
lease, easement, right-of-way, or right of entry.
11575. For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating
the project and for the purpose of providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities to be taken or destroyed, the department
may acquire for and in the name of the state, by gift, exchange,
purchase, or eminent domain proceedings, within or without the state,
any and all water, water rights, rights-of-way, easements, land,
electric power, power resources and facilities, and property or
appurtenances thereto of every kind and description and any
appurtenances to any such property as the department determines to be
required and necessary for the proper construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project and for effectuating the purposes and
objects to be accomplished by the construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project, and for providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities taken or destroyed.
11576. The cost of contruction of the project includes the cost and
expense of acquiring property and any such cost and expense is an
integral part of the capital cost of the project.
11577. Nothing in this chapter shall in any way interfere with or
abridge the right of the department or of any state agency to acquire
any property through the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
11578. In any lease, easement, or right of entry agreement entered
into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant
of easement, right-of-way, or right of entry in real property for the
purpose of exploration for, or construction, operation, or
maintenance of, water projects, or for other investigations or data
collection, the department may agree to indemnify and hold harmless
the lessor or grantor and may agree to repair or pay for any damage
caused by reason of the uses authorized by such lease, easement,
right-of-way or right of entry. Insurance may be purchased by the
Department of General Services, upon request of the department, to
protect the department against loss or expense arising out of such a
lease, easement, right-of-way, or right of entry.
11575. For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating
the project and for the purpose of providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities to be taken or destroyed, the department
may acquire for and in the name of the state, by gift, exchange,
purchase, or eminent domain proceedings, within or without the state,
any and all water, water rights, rights-of-way, easements, land,
electric power, power resources and facilities, and property or
appurtenances thereto of every kind and description and any
appurtenances to any such property as the department determines to be
required and necessary for the proper construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project and for effectuating the purposes and
objects to be accomplished by the construction, maintenance, and
operation of the project, and for providing and substituting new
facilities for facilities taken or destroyed.
11576. The cost of contruction of the project includes the cost and
expense of acquiring property and any such cost and expense is an
integral part of the capital cost of the project.
11577. Nothing in this chapter shall in any way interfere with or
abridge the right of the department or of any state agency to acquire
any property through the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
11578. In any lease, easement, or right of entry agreement entered
into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant
of easement, right-of-way, or right of entry in real property for the
purpose of exploration for, or construction, operation, or
maintenance of, water projects, or for other investigations or data
collection, the department may agree to indemnify and hold harmless
the lessor or grantor and may agree to repair or pay for any damage
caused by reason of the uses authorized by such lease, easement,
right-of-way or right of entry. Insurance may be purchased by the
Department of General Services, upon request of the department, to
protect the department against loss or expense arising out of such a
lease, easement, right-of-way, or right of entry.
