Use of public highway rights-of-way.

Each such district is hereby authorized to use the right-of-way of public highways for construction of gas lines along the margin of said right-of-way subject to the district's obtaining written permission from the appropriate county commission or the State Department of Transportation as applicable.

(Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §19; Acts 1969, No. 476, p. 932.)