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Ball Deflected by Power Line - Choice to Replay

It is interesting that the wording in the Committee procedures is

If a permanent overhead power line may interfere with the reasonable play of a hole, a Committee can require that if a ball hits the power line (and towers, support wires or poles supporting the power line), the stroke does not count and the player must play the stroke again.

I take this to read that a committee may either

(a) Have the LR as written

or

(b) not have the LR at all

Therefore a club cannot write a LR which gives the player the option to replay the shot or play as it lies.