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FL S1752
Bill
AI Summary
- Removes "data" communications lines and "wireless facilities" from the list of utilities over which governmental entities may prescribe and enforce rules regarding right-of-way placement and maintenance
- Repeals the Advanced Wireless Infrastructure Deployment Act in its entirety, eliminating the regulatory framework governing small wireless facility collocation, utility pole requirements, application timelines, height limits, design standards, and rate caps ($150/pole annually) for authority utility poles
- Eliminates numerous restrictions on municipal and county authority, including prohibitions on requiring individual franchises, charging registration fees, imposing permit fees for certain activities, and requiring facility inventories or maps from communications services providers
- Removes mandated permit application processing timeframes, the prohibition on municipalities/counties adopting regulations on right-of-way communications facility placement, and the civil action remedy allowing aggrieved persons to seek injunctions and attorney fees for violations
- Restores broader municipal and county regulatory and police power over roads and rights-of-way by removing limitations tied to chapters 202 and 610, while maintaining requirements that rules be nondiscriminatory, competitively neutral, and that permit fees not exceed $100
Legislative Description
Communications Services
Last Action
Died in Regulated Industries
3/14/2022
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