{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-453.56","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 453.56","heading":"EMINENT DOMAIN.","body":"Except as otherwise provided by this section, a municipal power agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of sections 453.51 to 453.62, whether in fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of eminent domain in accordance with chapter 117. A municipal power agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect to any real or personal property owned by any person as part of a system, whether existing, under construction, or being planned, of facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power. The authority of a municipal power agency to acquire real or personal property by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall exhaust it.","path":["LOCAL PUBLIC UTILITIES, ENTERPRISES","CHAPTER 453. MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC POWER"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/453.56","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:46Z","sha256":"48c1e4c71f7f032608384555f4c333daa9da036aa70ed29431b3e1ed0b31d803","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-453.55","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-453.57"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}