(a) Each applicant or customer shall execute and deliver to the gas corporation from which service is requested or by which service is being provided, free from cost, satisfactory permanent easements or rights-of-way to permit the corporation to provide service.
(b) The corporation shall not be obliged to provide service to any applicant or customer which has neither:
(1) delivered to the corporation satisfactory permanent easements of rights-of-way; nor
(2) requested that the corporation obtain such easements or rights-of-way, agreed to pay any costs which the corporation incurs in obtaining them and (if required to do so by the corporation) furnished reasonable security as to the performance of his agreement.