US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 68
                             TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE
                              AND ELECTRIC LINES
    18-6803.  REMOVAL OR DESTRUCTION OF ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES. It shall
be unlawful for anyone within the state of Idaho to take down, remove, injure,
obstruct, displace or destroy, wilfully or maliciously and without the consent
of the owner, any line erected or constructed for the transmission of
electrical current, or any poles, wires, conduits, cables, insulators, or any
support upon which wires or cables may be suspended, or any part of any such
line or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or to sever any wire
or cable thereof, or in any manner to interrupt the transmission of electrical
current over and along any such line, or to take down, remove, injure or
destroy any house, shop, building or other structure, or appurtenances
thereto, or any machinery connected therewith or necessary to the use of any
line erected or constructed for the transmission of electrical current:
    Provided, nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any
person, after having given ten days' written notice, from removing or causing
to be removed from his premises, or premises occupied by him, any of the above
described line or lines, wires, conduits, cables, insulators or apparatus
connected therewith; provided further, any such removals must be made by or
under the direction of a skillful and competent electrician.