Sec. 11-119.2-7. Except as otherwise provided by this Division, a municipal natural gas agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary for carrying out.
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Sec. 11-119.2-7. Except as otherwise provided by this Division, a municipal natural gas agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Division, whether in fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act. A municipal natural gas agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect to any real or personal property owned or leased by any eligible utility as part of a system, whether existing, under construction or being planned, of facilities for the storage, exploration, transmission, production or distribution of natural gas.
The authority of a municipal natural gas agency to acquire real or personal property by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall exhaust it.