Public Service Lines Across Rivers

Department of Justice. Opinion to Hon. Thomas G. Buchanan, Chairman, Water and Power Resources Board.

*333August 13, 1935. Margiotti, Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your request to be advised whether the Water and Power Resources Board has authority to impose a reasonable charge upon public service corporations in granting permits to cross the stream beds of the waters of this Commonwealth, either by submerged pipe lines in the river bed or by electric lines crossing overhead.

So far as the public waters of the Commonwealth are concerned, we are of the opinion that you not only…