Citizens Utilities Co. v. County of Kauai

How courts have described this case

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• holding county ordinance that set utility poles’ height was preempted by state statute and scheme that authorized only public utilities commission to “supervise and regulate public utilities, which would include the height of utility poles”
• “[A] municipal ordinance, which covers the same subject matter embraced within a State statute[,] is invalid if the statute discloses an express or implied intent that the same shall be exclusive, or uniform in application throughout the State.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).