Opinion ID: 2636616
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Beachner's position

Text: Beachner contends the district court improperly substituted the construction plans' requirement for SBT to avoid any conflicts for SBT's duty imposed by K.S.A. 17-1902(l). Subsection (l) generally provides that at the request of the city, the utility must remove or relocate its cable in order to accomplish construction ... activities. Beachner further claims that SBT breached this statutory duty. When SBT placed its western section of cable within the right-of-way, it should have dug deeper than the 5 to 6 feet that the construction plans required Beachner to bury the sewer line there. In the alternative, Beachner argues that SBT should have avoided interference with Beachner's required construction in that location by burying all of its cable completely outside of the work arearegardless of depth.