482:44 Authority Granted. –
To implement this subdivision, the department is authorized:
I. To hold in the name of the state real property and rights and easements in such property, including dams in disrepair, deemed by it necessary or desirable for the purposes of this subdivision, and to use such property; provided, however, that no dam or any real property appurtenant to a dam or any rights and easements in either may be acquired pursuant to the authority of this section or any other provision of law except an act of the legislature which authorizes the acquisition of a particular dam, real property, or right or easement.
II. To construct, reconstruct, maintain and operate such dams and other real property, rights and easements.
III. To enter into agreements whereby individuals, firms, corporations, or municipal corporations may obligate themselves or itself to the payment of the costs or any part of the costs for acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of facilities as provided for in paragraphs I and II.
Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.