California Public Utilities Code PART 2 - Utility Poles and Support Structures

• Section 9510.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that in order to promote wireline and wireless broadband access and adoption, it is in the interest of the state...
• Section 9510.5.
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Communications service provider” means a cable television corporation, video service provider, or telephone...
• Section 9511.
  (a) A local publicly owned electric utility shall make appropriate space and capacity on and in a utility pole and support structure owned or controlled by...
• Section 9511.5.
  (a) If a local publicly owned electric utility has the authority pursuant to other law to impose a fee to provide the use described in Section...
• Section 9512.
  (a) (1) An annual fee charged by a local publicly owned electric utility for the use of a utility pole by a communications service provider shall not...
• Section 9513.
  (a) A local publicly owned electric utility may require an additional one-time charge equal to three years of the annual fee described in Section 9512, for...
• Section 9514.
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit a local publicly owned electric utility from requiring a one-time fee to process a request for...
• Section 9515.
  (a) In the event that it becomes necessary for the local publicly owned electric utility to use space or capacity on or in a support structure...
• Section 9516.
  (a) (1) Before adopting, or increasing, a fee described in this part, or adopting or changing the terms and conditions of access subject to this part, the...
• Section 9517.
  (a) Any person or entity may protest the adoption or imposition of, or increase of, a fee described in this part, or adoption or change in...
• Section 9518.
  (a) A judicial action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an ordinance, resolution, motion, or contract adopting, or increasing, a fee described...
• Section 9519.
  (a) A person or entity, or trade association representing that person or entity, may request an audit in order to determine whether a fee described in...
• Section 9520.
  (a) Nothing in this part alters the ability of a local publicly owned electric utility to determine who performs work for the local publicly owned...

Last modified: October 22, 2018