The uniform standards provided for in this Part shall not be applicable to pipeline facilities in use on the date such standards are adopted, provided however, when, the commission, after notice and hearing, shall find a particular facility which is in use on the date of the adoption of such standards to be hazardous to life or property, the commission shall be empowered to require the public utility operating such facility to take such steps necessary to remove such hazard.
La. R.S. § 45:313