Duquesne Light Co. v. Monroeville Borough

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the public utility commission has approval power over local undergrounding ordinances and “ultimate authority to determine the particulars of implementation, including timing, feasibility and cost of the project”
• explaining that where the PUC and a local government had overlapping statutory authority the General Assembly intended the statutes to be applied harmoniously
• Commission is the appropriate forum for the adjudication of public utility facilities within the Commonwealth
• PUC has exclusive regulatory jurisdiction over the implementation of public utility facilities
• decided under a state statute concerning licensure of eating or drinking places

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).