How property and rights-of-way may be acquired; eminent domain proceedings.

In acquiring rights-of-way and property necessary for the construction of facilities and convenient approaches thereto in furtherance of the purposes of this article, the department shall have the power to acquire same by gift, lease, purchase, negotiation or condemnation. The department shall have all powers with respect to the condemnation of properties for the purposes of this article that were granted to that department in the 1957 Docks Act; and the exercise of such powers hereunder shall be subject to all limitations and conditions prescribed in the 1957 Docks Act.

(Acts 1967, No. 268, p. 765, §5.)