[§269-32]  Injury to public utility
property.  Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care,
any necessary or useful facility, equipment or property of any public utility
shall be liable to the public utility for all damages sustained thereby.  The
measure of damages to the facility, equipment or property injured or destroyed
shall be the cost to repair or replace the property injured or destroyed
including direct and allocated costs for labor, materials, supervision,
supplies, tools, taxes, transportation, administrative and general expense and
other indirect or overhead expenses, less credit, if any, for salvage.  The
specifying of the measure of damages for the facility, equipment or property
shall not preclude the recovery of such other damages occasioned thereby as may
be authorized by law. [L 1977, c 203, §1]