17-1903.   Entry upon and condemnation of land.Such companies are also authorized to enter upon any lands, whetherowned by private persons in fee, or in any less estate, or by anycorporation, whether acquired by purchase or by virtue of any provisionin the charter of such corporation, for the purpose of makingpreliminary surveys and examinations, with a view to the erection of anytelegraph lines; and, from time to time to appropriate so much of saidlands as may be necessary to erect such poles, piers, abutments, wiresand other necessary fixtures for a magnetic telegraph, and to make suchchanges of location of any part of said lines as may from time to timebe deemed necessary, and shall have a right of access to construct saidline, and when erected from time to time as may be required, to repairthe same, and may proceed to obtain the right-of-way, and to condemnlands for the use of the corporation in the manner provided by K.S.A. 26-501to 26-516, inclusive.

      History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 75; R.S. 1923, 17-1903; L. 1963, ch. 234, § 39;Jan. 1, 1964.