2025 California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 3 - Telegraph or Telephone Corporations
Section 7901.

Universal Citation:
CA Pub Util Code § 7901 (2025)
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7901. Telegraph or telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone lines along and upon any public road or highway, along or across any of the waters or lands within this State, and may erect poles, posts, piers, or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires, and other necessary fixtures of their lines, in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the road or highway or interrupt the navigation of the waters.

(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

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