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625 ILCS 5/18c-7501

(625 ILCS 5/18c-7501) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-7501)

Sec. 18c-7501. Eminent Domain.

If any rail carrier shall be unable to agree with the owner for
the purchase of any real estate required for the purposes of its
incorporation, or the transaction of its business, or for its
depots, station buildings, machine and repair shops, or for right
of way or any other lawful purpose connected with or necessary to
the building, operating or running of such rail carrier, such may
acquire such title in the manner that may be now or hereafter
provided for by the law of eminent domain.

A rail carrier may exercise quick take powers of eminent domain as provided
in Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act,
when all of the following conditions are met: (1) the complaint for
condemnation is filed within one year of the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1988; (2) the purpose of the condemnation proceeding is
to acquire land for the construction of an industrial harbor railroad port;
and (3) the total amount of land to be acquired for that purpose is less
than 75 acres and is adjacent to the Illinois River.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)