Sec. 3. Except as provided in section 5 of this chapter, a works board carrying out a thoroughfare plan under this chapter:
(1) has the same powers to:
(A) appropriate or condemn property;
(B) lay out, change, widen, straighten, or vacate public ways or public places;
(C) award and pay damages; and
(D) assess and collect benefits;
(2) shall proceed in the same manner; and
(3) is subject to the same rights of property owners, including the right to appeal;
as a works board that appropriates property under IC 32-24 and lays out, changes, widens, straightens, or vacates public ways or public places under IC 36-9-6.