SB391 Summary

• Amends Section 11-50B-3 of the Alabama Code to regulate right-of-way fees charged by municipalities and municipal instrumentalities to telecommunications providers.

• Requires that right-of-way fees be cost-based, whether structured as permitting fees, per linear foot charges, or percentages of gross revenues originating and terminating within city limits less wholesale revenues.

• Specifies that fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunications providers shall not include in-kind fiber or network build-out requirements.

• Maintains state and local governmental authority to manage public rights-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.