KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.
The question in this case is whether a county has the authority to charge a public utility a fee as a condition of granting the utility a franchise to place its transmission lines under county roads and highways. We hold that a county does not have the power to charge such a fee because the legislature has not expressly conferred that power on counties, and it is not a power which is necessarily implied from the right...
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