Section 393.430

Title XXV INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

Chapter 393

Effective - 28 Aug 1953   

  393.430.  Gas storage company may exercise eminent domain — purposes — procedure. — Subject to the limitations and provisions provided in sections 393.410 to 393.510, any gas storage company may acquire by condemnation land or interests in land, necessary or convenient to its operations as a gas storage company, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following operations, to wit:  Such operations, including the drilling of test holes or wells, as may be necessary or convenient to determine the suitability of a geological stratum or strata, formation or formations for the underground storage of gas (and for this purpose temporary licenses may be acquired by condemnation hereunder); the laying, operation and maintenance of pipes and pipelines necessary or convenient for the transportation of gas to the place of underground storage from the source of such gas; the preparation, establishment, maintenance, utilization and operation of the underground storage reservoir for the underground storage of gas and the injection of gas into such underground storage reservoir and the withdrawal thereof therefrom; the laying, operation and maintenance of pipes and pipelines necessary or convenient for the transportation of gas from the place of underground storage to any other place; the installation, operation and maintenance of any and all facilities and equipment necessary or convenient in connection with any of the foregoing operations.  Any gas storage company desiring to acquire by condemnation land or any interest therein, or a temporary license pursuant to this section, may to that end proceed as provided by, and subject to, the provisions of chapter 523, the provisions of which chapter are hereby made applicable in such case, but subject, further, to the limitations and provisions provided in sections 393.410 to 393.510.

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(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.