Private property, whether within or without the City limits,
may be purchased, condemned, or appropriated for public use for the
purpose of opening, widening, altering, or extending streets, alleys,
and avenues; for the construction of bridges, viaducts, grade separations,
public buildings, parks, parkways, markets, and market places, sewers,
drains, and water courses, public and detention hospitals, public
cemeteries, sewage disposal; water supply, water main, water works,
and for the protection thereof; or any necessary lawful public use
not specifically enumerated herein.
If it shall become necessary to condemn or appropriate private
property for the public use or purposes specified in the preceding
section, the right to occupy and hold the same, and the ownership
therein and thereto, may be acquired by the City in the manner and
with like effect as provided by the General Laws of this State, relating
to the taking of private property for public use.
Whenever the Commission shall have decided a public improvement
to be necessary, and shall have declared that they deem it necessary
to take private property, describing it, for such public improvement,
designating it, and that the improvement is for the use or benefit
of the municipality, they shall by resolution, direct the City Attorney
to institute the necessary proceedings in behalf of the municipality,
before the proper court, to carry out the object of the resolution
in regard to taking private property by the City for such public use.
