CopyCited 2 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2003 WL 21819032
...construct or operate water works systems, sewerage systems, sewage treatment works, garbage collection and garbage disposal plants. See §§
180.06, .22. FGTC is neither a municipality nor a qualified private company under the terms of chapter 180. Section
361.05 allows qualified natural gas transmission pipeline companies to exercise the right of eminent domain, but it does not expressly authorize a natural gas company to use the quick-take provisions of chapter 74. See §
361.05....
...companies the power of eminent domain under chapter 73 and the right to use the quick-take procedures under chapter 74. Strictly construing the statutory language, as we are required to do, does not permit us to adopt the expansive interpretation of section 361.05 offered by FGTC. FGTC's interpretation requires the addition of words to section 361.05 in order to give natural gas transmission companies the right to use the quick-take procedures....
...ly missing words."). This is not a situation where the addition of words is necessary to prevent the statute from having an absurd meaning or to make it conform to obvious legislative intent. See id. Accordingly, we reject FGTC's argument concerning section 361.05....
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CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...§ 717f(h). Some states, like Florida, au-
thorize these licensees to exercise the eminent-domain power of
the state to condemn property for the purpose of constructing or
maintaining natural-gas pipelines. See, e.g., Fla. Stat. § 361.05.
Similarly, Section 717f(h) is a delegation to private parties of the
federal government’s eminent-domain authority....
...Power,
617 F.2d at 1122
(explaining that, under the parallel text in the Federal Power Act,
“a licensee often has the option of utilizing either state or federal
eminent domain power”); see also S. Rep. No. 429, supra, at 1–2;
see, e.g., Fla. Stat. §
361.05....
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Cited as authorityWells (2025)phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authorityD.W. (2025)phrase: "rule_authority"
CopyPublished | District Court, N.D. Florida | 2017 WL 2434533, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85961
...at 366-67 ,
63 S.Ct. 573 ). And even if a federal rule was adopted, that would do nothing to address the corresponding lack of uniformity stemming from the fact that Natural Gas Act condemnation proceedings may be brought in federal or state court. See .§
361.05, Fla....
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CopyPublished | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1656, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 9173
...Any corporation organized under the laws of this State, or by virtue of the laws of any other state, and qualified to do business in this State, for the purpose of supplying natural gas for domestic and industrial purposes, may exercise the right of eminent domain to lay pipe lines. Section 361.05, Florida Statutes (1983)....
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Cited as authorityPichowski (2003)phrase: "rule_authority"
