Subject to the provisions of the Retail Electric Consumer Cost Reduction, Safety and Service Efficiency Act, any retail electric supplier shall be entitled to continue and extend the furnishing of electricity, including the right to construct, maintain and operate electric transmission and distribution lines and related facilities along, upon, under and across all existing and future public thoroughfares in an area that has been or shall be included, as a result of incorporation or annexation, within the boundaries of a municipality if the retail electric supplier was furnishing electricity or was constructing or operating electric facilities in the area prior to its incorporation or annexation without obtaining the consent, franchise, license, permit or other authority of the municipality, subject, however, to compliance with the lawful safety requirements of the municipality as to the matter of constructing and maintaining facilities along, upon, under and across thoroughfares.

Laws 2008, HB 1739, c. 263, § 4, eff. January 1, 2009.