7-31-107 - Condemnation for streets. - Tennessee Statutes

7-31-107. Condemnation for streets.

Wherever any municipal corporation shall seek to condemn lands to be used in establishing, widening, extending, or otherwise improving its public streets, alleys, highways, parks, parkways, or boulevards, it shall have full power to condemn the fee of the land necessary to be taken, by paying the fair cash market value of the land to be fixed in the manner provided by law where private property is taken for public use.

[Acts 1923, ch. 76, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 1981a1; Code 1932, § 3398; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-1007.]