[§46-77  Underground utility facilities in
improvement districts.]  Notwithstanding the provision of any statute or
ordinance or any regulation made under authority thereof, whenever the
legislative body of a county shall determine that the whole or a portion of
public utility facilities that are privately owned shall be located underground
within an improvement district established pursuant to improvement by
assessment statutes or ordinances, the utility engineering, placing of cables
and splicing work shall be performed by the public utility concerned
notwithstanding that a portion of the cost of the installation of such utility
facilities underground may be borne by the county within which such improvement
district is situated or the properties specially benefited within such
improvement district or both. [L 1969, c 256, §1]