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teller machines and restaurants are subject to taxation as provided | in section 1997.__In accordance with rules adopted pursuant to | section 1991, subsection 8, paragraph T, the authority may erect | and maintain or allow to be erected and maintained signs that | contain names, symbols, trademarks, logos or other identifiers of | specific commercial enterprises. |
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| | 2.__Use of eminent domain. When a reasonable price can not be | agreed upon for the purchase or lease of real property found | necessary for the purposes of the authority or when the owner is | legally incapacitated or is absent or is unable to convey valid | title or is unknown, the authority may acquire by eminent domain | any such real property whether wholly or partly constructed or | interest or interests in real property and any land, rights, | easements, franchises and other property considered necessary or | convenient for the construction or reconstruction or the | efficient operation of the East-West Highway, its connecting | tunnels, bridges, overpasses, underpasses or interchanges in the | manner provided by chapter 3, subchapter III.__Title to any | property taken by eminent domain must be in the name of the | authority. |
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| | 3.__Entry upon lands. The authority and its authorized agents | and employees may enter upon any lands, waters and premises in | the State for the purpose of making surveys, soundings, drillings | and examinations as it considers necessary or convenient for the | purposes of this chapter, and the entry may not be deemed a | trespass. |
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| | 4.__Authority for transfers of interest in land to authority. | All counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions or | municipalities and all public agencies and commissions of the | State and all public service corporations and districts, | notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, may lease, lend, | grant or convey to the authority, upon its request, upon such | terms and conditions as the proper authorities of the counties, | cities, towns, political subdivisions, other municipalities, | agencies, commissions, public service corporations and districts | consider reasonable and fair and without the necessity for any | advertisement, order of court or other action or formality other | than the regular and formal action of the authorities concerned, | any real or personal property or rights in such property that may | be necessary or convenient to the effectuation of the authorized | purposes of the authority, including real and personal property | or rights in that property already devoted to public use.__As | used in this subsection, the term "public service corporation" | includes every public utility as defined in Title 35-A, section | 102, subsection 13 and every corporation referred to in Title 13- | A. |
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