Public utilities: municipal corporations: rights of way.

Existing law grants to every municipal corporation the right to construct, operate, and maintain electric light and power lines across, along, in, under, over, or upon any road, street, alley, avenue, or highway, and across, under, or over any railway, canal, ditch, or flume which the route of the works intersects, crosses, or runs along. Under existing law, before any municipal corporation uses any street, alley, avenue, or highway within any other municipal corporation, it is required to request the other municipal corporation in which the street, alley, avenue, or highway is situated to agree with it upon the location of the use and the terms and conditions to which the use shall be subject. Under existing law, if the 2 municipal corporations are unable to agree on the terms and conditions and location of a use within 3 months after a proposal to do so, the municipal corporation proposing to use a street, alley, avenue, or highway is authorized to bring an action in the superior court against the other municipal corporation to have the terms and conditions and location determined, as prescribed. This bill would require a municipal corporation, before using any street, alley, avenue, or highway within any other municipal corporation or county, to request of the municipal corporation or county that has control over the street, alley, avenue, or highway to agree with it upon the location of the use and the terms and conditions to which the use shall be subject. This bill would authorize the municipal corporation proposing to use the street, alley, avenue, or highway within a county to bring an action in the superior court against the county if the municipal corporation and the county are unable to agree on the terms and conditions and location of the use within 3 months after a proposal. Existing law provides that a grant of authority from or agreement with another municipality is not necessary if the street, alley, avenue, or highway proposed to be used is a necessary or convenient part of the route of the proposed works and at the time construction was commenced or the plans adopted was located in unincorporated territory. This bill would repeal these provisions.