RSA 374:22 Other Public Utilities.

I. No person or business entity, including any person or business entity that qualifies as an excepted local exchange carrier, shall commence business as a public utility within this state, or shall engage in such business, or begin the construction of a plant, line, main, or other apparatus or appliance to be used therein, in any town in which it shall not already be engaged in such business, or shall exercise any right or privilege under any franchise not theretofore actually exercised in such town, without first having obtained the permission and approval of the commission.
II. No permission or approval under this section shall be required to be obtained by a foreign electric utility as defined in RSA 374-A:1 in connection with its participation in an electric power facilit