Any public utility operating within the State may acquire a utility easement for its public use in accordance with Chapter 61 of Title 10 whenever all the following conditions are met: (1) The property on, over, under, along or across which the public utility easement is to be established: a. Was previously owned by a railroad company, including a successor whose ownership interest derives, directly or indirectly, from the abandonment of the property use by a railroad company, or b. Was subject to an easement, right-of-way or occupation for railroad purposes; and (2) The railroad company's property interests have been extinguished by abandonment or otherwise; and (3) Immediately prior to the time such railroad company's property interests were extinguished, a public utility held an easement, license, right-of-way, permission or occupation for public utility purposes that had been obtained from the railroad company; and (4) The public utility and any owner or owners of the property cannot agree as to the terms and conditions of the acquisition by the public utility of a property interest for use for public utility purposes; and (5) The property on which the utility easement to be acquired is not owned by the State or any of its agencies or political subdivisions; and (6) The public utility exercises this authority in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 95 of Title 29.
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