RSA 371:15 By Pipeline Companies.

Whenever any business entity organized under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under the federal Natural Gas Act, authorizing it to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline or pipelines and appurtenant facilities within this state, or any petroleum pipeline company doing exclusively an interstate business, shall be unable to acquire necessary lands by purchase, lease or otherwise, it may institute condemnation proceedings as follows:
I. Said pipeline company shall cause a plan or location of the real estate proposed to be taken to be prepared and a copy thereof filed with the clerk of the superior court for each county in which any of suc