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