The Board of Commissioners may regulate and supervise the operation of all public utilities and quasi-public utilities operating or doing business within the town to the end that all citizens of the town shall receive from the public utilities and quasi-public utilities, equal treatment, good service and just and reasonable rates, and to grant or refuse franchises or privileges to the utilities and to regulate the erection and location of all poles and ancillary structures in the town and to require that all wires, pipes and conduits be placed underground and to regulate the same; provided that, the regulations shall not be in contravention of the general laws of the state applicable to the utilities, as the same are now or may hereafter be enacted.
(2003 Code, § 4-1.5)