[§46-77  Underground utility facilities inimprovement districts.]  Notwithstanding the provision of any statute orordinance or any regulation made under authority thereof, whenever thelegislative body of a county shall determine that the whole or a portion ofpublic utility facilities that are privately owned shall be located undergroundwithin an improvement district established pursuant to improvement byassessment statutes or ordinances, the utility engineering, placing of cablesand splicing work shall be performed by the public utility concernednotwithstanding that a portion of the cost of the installation of such utilityfacilities underground may be borne by the county within which such improvementdistrict is situated or the properties specially benefited within suchimprovement district or both. [L 1969, c 256, §1]