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.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 7901
Telegraph or Telephone Corporations
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 51 Cal. 2d 766 - Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City & County of San Francisco (1959)
Most recently applied in 6 Cal. 5th 1107 - T-Mobile West LLC v. City and County of S.F. (April 2019)
Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.
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