The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have power, after notice to the companies interested and public hearing, to require any public service company or certified telecommunications provider maintaining a line or lines of poles and wires in this state to change the location of such poles and wires in the public highways whenever public convenience or necessity requires such change and, if two or more companies, persons, firms or corporations are using or maintaining lines of poles or wires in the same street, to require the wires of such companies, persons, firms and corporations to be strung upon one or more lines of poles to be owned and maintained by the companies, persons, firms or corporations using the same as said authority determines.

(1949 Rev., S. 5408; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 54, 348; P.A. 94-74, S. 4, 11; P.A. 99-286, S. 6, 19; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 94-74 added provisions re persons, firms or corporations certified to provide intrastate telecommunication services, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 99-286 changed reference to person, firm or corporation certified to provide telecommunications service to “certified telecommunications provider”, effective July 19, 1999; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.

Cited. 103 C. 205; 162 C. 93.