A telephone or telegraph corporation has the right to:

1. (1) appropriate as much land owned by a private person or a corporation as is necessary to construct a facility; or
2. (2) condemn land to acquire a right-of-way or other interest in the land for the use of the telephone or telegraph corporation.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.