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Idaho Code § 62-701 (2026)

Right to use highways. 

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Right to use highways. 

Telephone corporations may construct or install telephone lines along, beneath the surface of or upon any public road or highway, or along, beneath the surface of, or across any of the waters or lands within this state, and may erect or install poles, posts, piers or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires and other necessary fixtures of their lines in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the road or highway, or interrupt the navigation of the waters.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1959–2012 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Rich v. Idaho Power Co., 346 P.2d 596 (Idaho 1959).
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State Ex Rel. Rich v. Idaho Power Co., 346 P.2d 596 (Idaho 1959). · cites it 84× “" The legislature in providing "reasonable regulations", referred to in the above quoted section of the Constitution, as it relates to the construction and maintenance of telegraph and telephone lines, enacted Revised Statutes, 1887, § 2700, now I.C. § 62-701, which reads:…”
KEPLER-FLEENOR v. Fremont Cnty., 268 P.3d 1159 (Idaho 2012). · cites it 4× “§ 62-705 (electric power lines); I.C. § 62-701 (telephone lines); I.C. § 30-802 (water lines); I.”
Bentel v. Cnty. of Bannock, 656 P.2d 1383 (Idaho 1983). · cites it 2× “I.C. § 62-701 provides in part: “Telegraph and telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone along and upon any public road or highway .”
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Boise Redevelopment Agency, 607 P.2d 1084 (Idaho 1980). · cites it 4× “11, § 13, intended a permissive use only; such is implicit in the legislation.”
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Kelly, 459 P.2d 349 (Idaho 1969). “The telephone company had the clear legal right to place and maintain their facilities upon the highway right-of-way, Idaho Constitution, Article 11, § 13, § 62-701, I.C., and such facilities impose no additional burden for which the owner of the fee is entitled to compensation.”
Joni Kepler-Fleenor v. Fremont Cnty. (Idaho 2011). · cites it 2× “§ 62-705 (electric power lines); I.C. § 62-701 (telephone lines); I.C. § 30- 802 (water lines); I.”
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