CHAPTER 7. OTHER RIGHTS OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS - Texas Statutes

VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES

TITLE 112. RAILROADS

CHAPTER 7. OTHER RIGHTS OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS

Text of article effective until April 01, 2011

Art. 6341. SOME RIGHTS. Railroad corporations shall have the

following other rights:

1. To have succession, and in their corporate name may sue and be

sued, plead and be impleaded.

2. To have and use a seal, which it may alter at pleasure.

3. To receive and convey persons and property on its railway by

the power and force of steam, or by any mechanical power.

4. To regulate the time and manner in which passengers and

property shall be transported, and the compensation to be paid

therefor, subject to the provisions of law.

5. Of eminent domain for the purposes prescribed in this title.

6. To purchase, hold and use all such real estate and other

property as may be necessary for the construction and use of its

railway, stations and other accommodations necessary to

accomplish the objects of its incorporation, and to convey the

same when no longer required for the use of such railway.

7. To take, hold and use such voluntary grants of real estate and

other property as shall be made to it in aid of the construction

and use of its railway, and to convey the same when no longer

required for the uses of such railway, in any manner not

incompatible with the terms of the original grant.

Acts 1876, p. 142; G.L. vol. 8, p. 978.

Text of article effective until April 01, 2011

Art. 6351. EMINENT DOMAIN. A railroad corporation or a receiver

of a railroad that changes, relocates, or abandons a line of

railroad in this State may acquire by condemnation or otherwise

all lands for right of way, depot grounds, shops, roundhouses,

water supply sites, sidings, switches, spurs or any other

purposes connected with or necessary to the building, operating

or running of the railroad, as changed, relocated or abandoned;

provided that property acquired under this article is declared

for and charged with public use.

Acts 4th C.S. 1918, p. 45.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch.

1115, Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2007.