§ 4. Condemnation interests.

Whenever the City shall condemn any land for any public or municipal purpose, in all cases the absolute and unqualified fee simple title to such land, or, when the proceeding is in personam, all the right, title and interest of the owner or owners who are made parties to the proceeding, if they should not be the owners of the entire fee simple title, shall be condemned and acquired; so that neither the land nor any interest therein, shall under any circumstances revert to the person or persons who shall be the owners thereof at the time of the condemnation, or who shall be parties to the proceeding in personam, nor to any person or persons claiming under him, her or them; provided, however, that when the condemnation shall be provided for by ordinance, the City may determine, and in the ordinance providing for the condemnation declare, that an interest, less than the fee simple interest, for a fixed and limited period of time, or some other limited interest, will suffice for the purpose or purposes for which the property is to be acquired, and under such circumstances, only such interest shall be condemned and acquired.