Any gas utility which is empowered to manufacture and sell gas of any type or mixture of gas of various types suitable for light, heat or power, may exercise the power of eminent domain as provided in sections 48 and 49 hereof in taking and acquiring any land or other property or any interest therein reasonably necessary for a right-of-way for the transmission to, from or between its plants or for the distribution to the public of gas of any type, whether manufactured gas or natural gas or any mixture of gas of the various types suitable for light, heat or power.

L.1962, c. 198, s. 52.