65-6-119 - Construction and maintenance of roadbeds. - Tennessee Statutes

65-6-119. Construction and maintenance of roadbeds.

Any railroad company owning or operating a railroad or any part thereof in Tennessee, whether chartered under the laws of the state of Tennessee or under the laws of any other state or states, is empowered to fill its trestles and to make all creek changes necessary for the same; to construct channels and canals contiguous to its rights of way so as to prevent the unnecessary crossing of creeks and to make such other changes in the beds of creeks as may be necessary for the proper construction and maintenance of its roadbeds; provided, that where any property owner is damaged by such change in a creek, such landowners shall be entitled to just compensation for the same.

[Acts 1911, ch. 55, § 1; Shan., § 1490a1; Code 1932, § 2576; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 65-622.]