393.430. Gas storage company may exercise eminent domain--purposes--procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Gas storage company may exercise eminent domain--purposes--procedure.

393.430. Subject to the limitations and provisions providedin sections 393.410 to 393.510, any gas storage company mayacquire by condemnation land or interests in land, necessary orconvenient to its operations as a gas storage company, including,but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, thefollowing operations, to wit: Such operations, including thedrilling of test holes or wells, as may be necessary orconvenient to determine the suitability of a geological stratumor strata, formation or formations for the underground storage ofgas (and for this purpose temporary licenses may be acquired bycondemnation hereunder); the laying, operation and maintenance ofpipes and pipelines necessary or convenient for thetransportation of gas to the place of underground storage fromthe source of such gas; the preparation, establishment,maintenance, utilization and operation of the underground storagereservoir for the underground storage of gas and the injection ofgas into such underground storage reservoir and the withdrawalthereof therefrom; the laying, operation and maintenance of pipesand pipelines necessary or convenient for the transportation ofgas from the place of underground storage to any other place; theinstallation, operation and maintenance of any and all facilitiesand equipment necessary or convenient in connection with any ofthe foregoing operations. Any gas storage company desiring toacquire by condemnation land or any interest therein, or atemporary license pursuant to this section, may to that endproceed as provided by, and subject to, the provisions of chapter523, RSMo, the provisions of which chapter are hereby madeapplicable in such case, but subject, further, to the limitationsand provisions provided in sections 393.410 to 393.510.

(L. 1953 p. 513 § 4)

(1956) In action to condemn lands for gas storage under §§ 393.410 to 393.510, owners of lands adjoining those sought to be condemned did not have right to intervene because only damage they could suffer would result from use of condemned lands and not from condemnation. Laclede Gas Co. v. Abrahamson (Mo.), 296 S.W.2d 100.