§11-50-270. Completion of sale pursuant to final determination of commission or court; effect of failure of seller to tender deed, etc., or of board to accept deed, pay purchase price, etc.

The owner shall have 30 days after a final determination by the Public Service Commission or the courts to notify the waterworks board of its acceptance of such determination and shall have a further period of 30 days to tender a good and sufficient deed of conveyance to the waterworks board of the property required by the order of the commission or the court to be purchased by placing such deed in escrow with the commission or the court, as the case may be, and to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment. The waterworks board shall have 60 days from the date of the deposit of the deed in escrow to accept or reject such deed and, if it accepts, the waterworks board shall have a further period of 60 days to pay to the owner the price determined as provided in this division and to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment. For good cause shown the commission or the court may extend any period of time fixed in this section, such extension or extensions not to exceed a total of 60 days.

If the owner fails to notify the waterworks board of his acceptance and make tender of a deed as provided in this section within the time so fixed or extended or to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment, the waterworks board may proceed as provided by law to construct or otherwise acquire a plant or system within the territory where the property of such owner or any part thereof is located. If the waterworks board shall reject the tender provided for in this section or shall fail to pay the purchase price of the property determined as provided in this division or to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment, the waterworks board shall not engage in the business of operating a plant or system for the manufacture or distribution of gas in the territory where the property involved is located until it shall again be authorized as provided by this division and the general law relating thereto to engage in such business, and such waterworks board shall not again institute proceedings under this division sooner than two years from the date of such rejection or the expiration of the time for the payment of such purchase price, as the case may be.

(Acts 1947, No. 154, p. 48, §11.)