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Code · Iowa · Chapter 478 — Electric Transmission Lines

478.18 Supervision of construction — location.

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1. The utilities commission shall have power of supervision over the construction of a transmission line and over its future operation and maintenance.
2. A transmission line shall be constructed near and parallel to roads, to the right-of-way of the railways of the state, or along the division lines of the lands, according to the government survey, 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.
[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]
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