SB0832 - Tennessee: Telecommunications, Utilities, Utility Districts

Companion Bill HB1914. Telecommunications - Requires municipally or cooperatively owned utilities to provide access for pole attachments to poles and conduit located in public rights of way. - Amends TCA Section 65-21-105. Fiscal Summary for *SB0832 / HB1914 Decrease Local Govt. Revenues - Exceeds $4,000,000 Bill Summary for *SB0832 / HB1914 Present law provides that no telegraph or telephone company, or other such company, may attach its lines to, or otherwise use, the poles of any other telegraph or telephone company without the consent of such company being first had and obtained. This bill rewrites the above provision to instead provide the following: (1) No municipally or cooperatively owned utility may request or receive from a telegraph or telephone corporation or a cable television provider, in exchange for permission [...]

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