All power plants and systems, constructed or otherwise acquired, or used or operated by any consumers power district under the provisions of chapters 49-35 to 49-40 , inclusive, or proposed by such district to be so constructed, acquired, owned, used, or operated, are hereby declared to be works of internal improvement. All laws applicable to works of internal improvement, and all provisions of law now applicable to electric light and power corporations, as regards the exercise of the power of eminent domain, the use and occupation of state and other public lands and highways, the appropriation, or other acquisition, for any of the purposes contemplated in said chapters, the manner or method of construction and physical operation of power plants, systems, and transmission lines, as hereby contemplated, shall be applicable as nearly as may be, to districts organized under chapter 49-35 , and in the performance of the duties conferred or imposed upon them under the provisions of chapters 49-35 to 49-40 , inclusive.
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