Whenever the city council shall consider it necessary to procure grounds for water
works, or any water-power for water works, or the right to take from any dam or pond,
reservoir or other part or portion of the waters of the Mississippi River, whether
the same be private or public property or rights, any and all water necessary or convenient
for the purpose of being forced through the conduits, aqueducts, mains, pipes or branch
pipes in the City of Minneapolis, or through any part thereof, for the benefit and
use of the inhabitants and people residing at or being in the City of Minneapolis,
and for the use of said city; or the right to lay intake pipes from any pump station
in the City of Minneapolis belonging to said water works, through any mill dam, mill
pond, whether above, through or below water, or through the bed or bottom of any such
mill dam or mill pond, or through any private real estate, whether same be water or
land, or interests in any water power or water reservoir, and to lay and maintain
said intake pipe or pipes, and to construct the necessary cribs and other protections
of every kind necessary to lay or to protect any such intake pipe or pipes, anywhere
in the Mississippi River, or the islands therein or land adjoining thereto; and the
right to construct dams and reservoirs, and wing dams, anywhere in said river, whether
within or above other dams, ponds or reservoirs, the city council may exercise its
power of eminent domain, or proceed under any applicable state law granting or governing
proper authority. (2014-Or-108, § 6, 12-5-14, eff. 1-1-15)
