478.18  Supervision of construction--location.

The utilities board shall have power of supervision over the construction of said transmission line and over its future operation and maintenance. Said transmission line shall be constructed near and parallel to the right of way of the railways of the state or along the division lines of the lands, according to the government survey thereof, wherever the same is practicable and reasonable, and so as not to interfere with the use by the public of the highways or streams of the state, nor unnecessarily interfere with the use of any lands by the occupant thereof.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 2120-r; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 8325; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 489.17; C66, 71, 73, 75, § 489.18; C77, 79, 81, § 478.18]

Footnotes

  Removal from highway, chapter 319


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