Section 901 - Location of lines; eminent domain(a) Any telegraph corporation, any telephone corporation or any corporation using lines or wires for the transmitting of electrical current, whether created by prior special act or organized under Chapter 1 of Title 8, may erect, construct and maintain its telegraph or telephone lines or its wires for transmitting electrical current and the necessary fixtures for the same through and across or under any of the canals and canal lands, rivers or other waters and also along any highways within the limits of this State, outside of highways within the limits of and maintained by incorporated cities and towns, subject to the approval or authority of the public authority having charge or control of such highways and also subject to the right of the owners of the fee on such highways and to the owners abutting upon such highways to full compensation to the extent that their property is taken or burdened. (b) Whenever any such corporation cannot agree with any such owner as to purchase or damages, the corporation may proceed for the condemnation of any such franchises, easements, canals, canal lands, rivers or other waters or highways or burdens imposed upon landowners abutting upon any highways whether owners of the fee in the bed of such highways or not in manner prescribed by Chapter 61 of Title 10.(c) All new extensions within a subdivision of electric distribution, telephone, and telegraph lines applied for after July 7, 1970 and necessary to furnish permanent service to new residential buildings in a subdivision having 5 or more building lots or to new multi-occupancy buildings, shall be placed underground, except in situations where the Public Service Commission of Delaware determines that the placing of such utility lines underground is not feasible from an economic, engineering or physical standpoint. Such extension of service shall be made by the utility in accordance with its rules and regulations which must be approved by the Delaware Public Service Commission.22 Del. Laws, c. 394, § 105; 27 Del. Laws, c. 189; Code 1915, § 2049; 33 Del. Laws, c. 106; Code 1935, § 2193; 26 Del. C. 1953, § 901; 57 Del. Laws, c. 686.;