Town of Rye v. Public Service Co.

The defendant Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), joined by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (DOT), appeals an order of the Trial Court {Murphy, J.) permitting the Town of Rye to revoke the licenses which the town had granted PSNH to erect siren poles on town-maintained *367rights-of-way as part of an evacuation plan for the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station. The court directed PSNH to remove those siren poles, as well as other siren poles which PSNH had erected in Rye and Hampton Falls on State-maintained highways. We reverse.

PSNH is the major owner of the Seabrook Nuclear…