(65 ILCS 5/11-119.1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.1-7)
Sec. 11-119.1-7. Except as otherwise provided by this Division, a municipal
power agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary
for carrying out the purposes of this Division, whether in fee simple absolute
or a lesser interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of eminent
domain in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act.
A municipal power agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect
to any real or personal property owned or leased by any eligible utility
as part of a system, whether existing, under construction or being planned,
of facilities for the generation,
transmission, production or distribution of electrical power.
The authority of a municipal power agency to acquire real or personal property
by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be
a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall exhaust it.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
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