Ohio Code § 4933.15

§ 4933.15.

For the purpose of making preliminary examinations and surveys, any company transmitting

or distributing electricity in the state for public or private use may enter upon

any land held by any individual or corporation, whether acquired by purchase, appropriation

proceedings, or otherwise, unless such land is owned by and essential to the purposes

of another corporation possessing the power of eminent domain.  The company also may appropriate so much of such land, or any right or interest

in the land, including any trees, edifices, or buildings on the land, as is deemed

necessary for either of the following purposes: (A) The erection, operation, or maintenance of an electric plant, including its substations,

switching stations, transmission and distribution lines, poles, towers, piers, conduits,

cables, and wires and other necessary structures and appliances, but excluding its

generating stations; (B) Rights-of-way over such land and adjacent lands for the purpose of access to any

part of such land. The right of appropriation shall be exercised in the same manner provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code .