Ohio Code § 4951.11

§ 4951.11.

When it is deemed necessary by a majority of the directors of a domestic or foreign

corporation owning or operating a street railway in a municipal corporation to appropriate

private property in such municipal corporation, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult

curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial ground or foundations, to extend or shorten

its railway line, or to provide land on which to extend its power plant, such corporation

may appropriate so much private property as is necessary for the extension of such

power plant, or for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the tracks, poles,

supports, wires, cables, and necessary appliances of such railway other than power

houses, machine shops, stations, or substations, in the manner provided by and subject

to sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code . For the purposes provided in this section such corporation may change the location

of any part of its railway.