Any individual or corporation authorized to construct and operate gas or electric transmission and distribution systems in the city, is authorized and empowered to appropriate and condemn under the laws of the state so much private property as shall be necessary for the construction and operation of gas or electric transmission and distribution systems with all the necessary pipe lines, regulator stations, poles, wires, associated trenches, substations, plants and other requisites of such systems provided that prior to the commencement of each and every condemnation procedure specific authority must first be obtained from the city council by resolution. Information bearing on the request for condemnation shall be furnished by the individual or corporation to the city engineer no less than twenty calendar days prior to consideration of said resolution by the city council. (Ord. S-20378, 1972).