Currently, the Special District Act (act) grants metropolitan
districts and water and sanitation districts the power to have and exercise the powers of eminent domain and dominant eminent domain, but does not define these powers. The bill specifies that the powers of eminent domain and dominant eminent domain granted to metropolitan districts and water and sanitation districts in the act do not authorize the exercise of the power of dominant eminent domain to acquire state-owned property or the property of a home rule city, town, city and county, or county.
