                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSMISSION FACILITIES (§ 56-623)

All posts, poles, wires, cables, lines, pipelines, conduits, and other
distribution facilities erected under any authority conferred by this chapter
shall be so located as in no way to obstruct or interfere with public travel or
the ordinary use of, or the safety and convenience of persons traveling through,
on, or over, the public roads, turnpikes, streets, avenues, alleys, railroads,
or waters in or upon which the same may be erected. All distribution facilities
erected as aforesaid shall be placed at such height as provided by regulations
of the Commission or the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Buried distribution
facilities shall be laid at such distance below the surface of any public road,
turnpike, street, avenue, or alley, and at such distance from the outside of any
gas or water main or other conduit already laid under such public road,
turnpike, street, avenue, or alley, as prescribed by regulations of the
Commission or by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. No distribution
facilities shall be strung across or laid, nor posts or poles erected, upon the
property of any person without first obtaining the consent of the owner thereof.
Such distribution facilities shall not damage private property without
compensation therefor, nor in any way obstruct the navigation of any stream, or
impair or endanger the use thereof by the public or any other person entitled to
the use of the same. In consideration of co-locating on existing rights of way,
the renewable generator shall meet the respective safety and clearance standards
of the public service corporation including the National Electrical Safety Code,
the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act (§ 56-265.14 et seq.), gas
pipeline safety standards pursuant to § 56-257.2, and the public service
corporation&#8217;s own safety and clearance standards as the same are
communicated to the renewable generator in writing, and any applicable federal
laws and regulations.

HISTORY: 2009, c. 807, § 67-1109; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.