Sec.16-11-137. Petition for commission approval—electric lines

No electric line, the nominal voltage of which is to exceed twenty thousand volts to ground, shall be constructed without prior commission approval of the manner and method of construction. A petition for such approval shall be submitted to the commission at least thirty days before it is planned to construct such line, and said petition shall state the following: (1) The purpose for which the line is to be built; (2) the local names of the points between which the line is to be built, and the towns through which it will pass; (3) the length of the line; (4) the electrical description of the line, indicating voltage, number of phases, frequency and number of conductors; (5) the general type of construction to be employed; such as, wood pole, steel tower, wood crossarms, grounded metal crossarms, pin or suspension insulators, underground ducts, direct burial, etc, (6) the character of materials to be employed; namely, pole size and class, insulator rating, conductor, material and size (solid or stranded), cable (insulation and sheathing); (7) a description of lightning protection and grounding of neutral, if any; (8) the special feature employed at points of crossing over or under circuits and facilities of other utilities and municipalities; (9) the titles of specifications and standards with which it is intended that the construction shall conform, (10) the names of all utilities and municipalities whose exposed circuits, tracks or other facilities are crossed over or under, paralleled by or in conflict with the overhead line in question. The names of all utilities and municipalities whose underground circuits, hacks or other facilities are crossed over or under, or are paralleled by and adjacent to the underground line in question; (11) the dates upon which it is planned to start construction and to energize the line; (12) the petition shall be accompanied by a drawing showing the typical arrangement and spacing of conductors on poles or towers and the amount of sag of conductors and clearances from the ground in a typical span; (13) the petition for underground construction shall be accompanied by a drawing showing the approximate location, depth and clearances of all known underground circuits, tracks and other underground facilities of municipalities and other utilities crossed over or under by or adjacent to the underground line in question; (14) commission approval is also to be obtained prior to energizing line construction contemplated by this section.