There is hereby created a Power Line Siting and Design Board. The board is hereby established to develop valid construction standards and safety rules for the use of public ways in the City by all utilities including the Purcell Public Works Authority's Electric Utility. The board is directed to establish methods to encourage the orderly development of electric services, conserve natural resources, minimize unnecessary use of the public rights-of-way, avoid needless and wasteful duplication of electric facilities within the State, and provide safe, economical and cost effective electric service to retail customers. It shall be the duty of the Power Line Siting and Design Board to ensure that the purposes of State law are achieved by reviewing all applications and will approve the application or amend the application by providing the methods that shall be used to accomplish the construction so that the construction meets the goals of the Retail Electric Consumer Cost Reduction, Safety, and Service Efficiency Act of 2008.
(Ord. No. 09-02, § 1, 4-6-2009)
Special law reference- HB 1739 passed by the Oklahoma State Legislature in 2008.