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CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
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CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: fill
DATE: April 27, 2021
SUBJECT: STATE LEGISLATION: SENATE BILL 556
DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
PRESENTER: Masis Hagobian
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council adopt the City Council Legislative Committee recommendation to oppose Senate
Bill 556 (Dodd) and transmit position statements to Senator Dodd, Santa Clarita's state
legislative delegation, appropriate legislative committees, Governor Newsom, League of
California Cities, and other stakeholder organizations.
BACKGROUND
Authored by Senator Bill Dodd (D-3-Napa), Senate Bill 556 preempts local authority of the
public right-of-way by requiring local governments to make space on all publicly owned street
light poles, traffic signal poles, and supporting structures for the installation of equipment used
by cable television corporations, video service providers, and telephone corporations, regardless
of local regulations.
Additionally, Senate Bill 556 creates ambiguity in the fees local governments can charge for
access to their infrastructure. Federal law explicitly outlines conditions for valid fees, limiting
fees to a "reasonable approximation of the local government's actual and direct costs," including
costs to maintain a structure within the right-of-way, process an application or permit, and
review a siting application. Senate Bill 556, on the other hand, chooses not to incorporate these
federal standards, further restricting fees to "actual costs" and "reasonable actual costs."
The City of Santa Clarita (City) currently regulates the installation and operation of
telecommunication and cable equipment within the public right-of-way and in commercial and
industrial zones. In establishing a statewide framework for telecommunication and cable
equipment deployment, this bill establishes significant limitations on the process, procedure, and
ability of local governments in reviewing equipment installations in the public right -of way.
Specifically, the City's Unified Development Code regulates the cell proximity to residential
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uses and zones, underground of appurtenant equipment, specified aesthetic criteria, and fees.
Ultimately, the City's regulations intend to preserve the health, safety, and overall quality of life
of the community, while ensuring a feasible review and processing of equipment installations in
the public right-of-way. If this bill passes, the City will lose its current discretionary review and
regulatory authority of the installation of telecommunication and cable equipment.
The recommendation to oppose Senate Bill 556 is consistent with the City of Santa Clarita 2021
Executive and Legislative Platform. Specifically, Component 20 under the "State" section
advises that the City Council, "Oppose legislation that limits or eliminates local discretionary
review of the installation of small cell wireless equipment or any wireless technology facilities
on public infrastructure or in the public right of way."
Senate Bill 556 passed the Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee (11-1-2) on
April 19, 2021, and was referred to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee. As a
member of the Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee, a vote was not
recorded for Senator Henry Stern.
Notable supporters include the Bay Area Council, Crown Castle, Los Angeles County Business
Federation (BizFed), and Verizon.
Notable opponents include the League of California Cities, Sacramento County Board of
Supervisors, South Bay Cities Council of Government, and 65 cities, including Agoura Hills,
Calabasas, Los Angeles, Palmdale, and Thousand Oaks.
The City Council Legislative Committee met on April 8, 2021, and recommends that the City
Council adopt an "oppose" position on Senate Bill 556.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
1. Adopt a "support" position on Senate Bill 556
2. Adopt a "neutral" position on Senate Bill 556
3. Take no action on Senate Bill 556
4. Refer Senate Bill 556 back to the Legislative Committee
5. Other direction, as provided by the City Council
FISCAL IMPACT
The resources required to implement the recommended action are contained within the City of
Santa Clarita's adopted FY 2020-21 budget.
ATTACHMENTS
Senate Bill 556 - Bill Text
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AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 16, 2021
SENATE BILL No. 556
Introduced by Senator Dodd
February 18, 2021
An act to amend ✓VVLion 9510.5 o Sections 9510, 9510.5, 9511,
9511.5, 9512, 9513, 9514, and 9515 of, to amend the heading of Part
2 (commencing with Section 9510) ofDivision 4.8 of, and to add Section
9514.5 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to communications.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 556, as amended, Dodd. Street light poles, traffic
signal poles, utility poles, and support structures: attachments.
Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility to make
appropriate space and capacity on and in their utility poles, as defined,
and support structures available for use by cable television corporations,
video service providers, and telephone corporations. Under existing
law, "utility poles" include electrical poles, except those electrical poles
used solely for the transmission of electricity at 50 kilovolts or higher.
This bill would revise the definition of a utility pole to include an
electrical transmission tower, while continuing to exclude an electrical
pole, but not an electrical transmission tower, used solely for the
transmission of electricity at 50 kilovolts or higher. The bill would
require a local publicly owned electric utility to make available
appropriate space and capacityfor use by cable television corporations,
video service providers, and telephone corporations on and in their
street light poles, traffic signal poles, and supporting structures. The
bill would require local governments to make appropriate space and
capacity on and in their street light poles, traffic signal poles, and
supporting structures in a similar manner as is required for a local
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publicly owned electric utility. By placing additional requirements upon
local publicly owned electric Wilities, utilities and local governments,
the bill would impose a state -mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.
Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act
for a specified reason.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State -mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
1 SECTION]. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
2 following:
3 (1) Communities across California face a multitude of barriers
4 to the deployment of resilient and accessible networks. Broadband
5 internet access service in urban communities varies by
6 neighborhood, with great discrepancies in infrastructure
7 technology. Communities in rural areas often lack sufficient
8 broadband internet access service, as well as the backhaul
9 infrastructure, to provide broadband services.
10 (2) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which
11 broadband access is essential for education, telehealth, remote
12 working, public safety, public health and welfare, and economic
13 resilience. The pandemic adds greater urgency to develop new
14 strategies and expand on existing successful measures to deploy
15 reliable networks. Connection to the internet at reliable speeds is
16 also crucial to California's economic recoveryfrom the impact of
17 COVID-19. Millions of children are attending classes remotely,
18 telehealth visits have skyrocketed, and many more Californians
19 are telecommuting from their places of residence. Additionally,
20 with unprecedented growth in unemployment caused by COVID-19
21 and the need to participate in societyfrom home, the demand for
22 reliable broadband internet access service has significantly
23 increased as millions of additional Californians need access to
24 successfully weather the pandemic and to recover.
25 (3) Mobile broadband internet access is critical to distance
26 learning. Just as important, mobile broadband internet access is
27 needed to address the digital divide. In 2017, for example, 73
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1 percent of households accessed the internet using a cellularphone.
2 The Federal Communications Commission reports that nearly 70
3 percent of teachers assign homework that requires broadband
4 access. Although California has made progress closing the digital
5 divide at schools, internet access at home is still a challenge.
6 Almost 16 percent of schoolage children, about 945, 000, had no
7 internet connection at home in 2017 and 27 percent, about 1.7
8 million, did not have broadband connections. Access varies
9 significantly by family income, parental education, race or
10 ethnicity, and geography. For example, 22 percent of low-income
11 households with schoolage children did not have any internet
12 connection at home and 48 percent reported no broadband
13 subscription at home.
14 (4) Over 2,000,000 Californians lack access to high-speed
15 broadband at benchmark speeds of 100 megabits per second
16 download, including 50 percent of rural housing units. More than
17 14,000,000 Californians, over one-third of the population, do not
18 subscribe to broadband at the minimum benchmark speed to
19 support distance learning and technologies that depend on upload
20 speed. Only 34 percent of adults over 60 years of age use the
21 internet, excluding older adults from access to telemedicine, social
22 services, and other support.
23 (5) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services define
24 telehealth as "a two-way, real-time interactive communication
25 between a patient and a physician or practitioner at a distant site
26 through telecommunications equipment that includes, at a
27 minimum, audio and visual equipment." Telemedicine encompasses
28 a growing number of applications and technologies, including
29 two-way live or streaming video, videoconferencing,
30 store -and -forward imaging along with the internet, email, smart
31 phones, wireless tools, and other forms of telecommunication.
32 These technologies facilitate and leverage the latest innovations
33 in computer, network, and peripheral equipment to promote the
34 health of patients around the world. Critical to its success is
35 reliable broadband internet access.
36 (6) Telehealth technology permits health care services to be
37 delivered without in person contact, reducing the risk of disease
38 transmission to both patients and health care workers, and frees
39 up in person resources for COVID-19 patients. Telehealth allows
40 patients to receive health services away from settings where the
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1 potential for contracting COVID-19 is high, such as hospitals,
2 health clinic waiting rooms, private practices, and other medical
3 facilities. Telehealth can also expand the reach of resources to
4 communities that have limited access to needed services.
5 (7) Due to widespread restrictions, and with fewer elective
6 procedures occurring in California and around the country to
7 reserve beds for COVID-19 patients, the telehealth share of total
8 medical claim lines, which is the individual service or procedure
9 listed on an insurance claim, increased 8,336 percent nationally
10 from April 2019, to April 2020. Similar percentage increases have
11 occurred in California.
12 (8) Millions of Californians are working from home while
13 sheltering in place. Even employers that had not previously
14 permitted remote -work arrangements have changed their policies
15 during the pandemic. The Department of General Services reports
16 that 83.9 percent of state workers are working from home. Survey
17 data indicates that nearly two-thirds of those who still had jobs
18 during the pandemic were almost exclusively working from home.
19 That compares with just 13 percent of workers who said they did
20 so even a few times a week prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21 Telework is expected to continue at rates much higher than before
22 COVID-19 even after the pandemic is over. Among those workers
23 surveyed who had previously not regularly worked from home, 62
24 percent said they were enjoying the change, and 75 percent expect
25 their employers to continue to provide flexibility in where they
26 work after the pandemic has passed. Indeed, the State of California,
27 one of California's largest employers, has stated the desire for 75
28 percent of the state 's workforce to remain home, at least part time,
29 for the foreseeable future. The Metropolitan Transportation
30 Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area voted to adopt a
31 strategy to have large, office -based companies require people to
32 work from home three days a week as a way to slash emissions of
33 greenhouse gases from car commutes. Critical to the success of
34 telework is reliable broadband internet access.
35 (9) The enormous increases in distance learning, telehealth,
36 and telework require a significant boost in broadband
37 infrastructure, especially near the homes where these activities
38 take place. To promote wireless broadband internet access near
39 homes, it is in the interest of the state to ensure the deployment of
40 wireless facilities on utility poles, street light poles, and traffic
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1 signal poles. It is in the interest of the state to ensure that local
2 publicly owned electric utilities and local governments that own
3 or control utility poles, traffic signal poles, or street light poles
4 make available appropriate space and capacity on and in those
5 structures to communications service providers, under reasonable
6 rates, terms, and conditions.
7 (10) The state has a compelling interest in ensuring that local
8 governments provide access to utility poles, traffic signal poles,
9 or street light poles, with nondiscriminatory fees that recover
10 reasonable actual costs. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature
11 that this part supersedes all conflicting local laws and this part
12 shall apply in charter cities.
13 (H) Time is of the essence to approve small wireless facility
14 siting applications given the immediate need for broadband internet
15 access, as amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
16 (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to facilitate the deployment
17 of wireless broadband internet access and to bridge the digital
18 divide by connecting students, families, and communities with
19 reliable internet connectivity that will remain a necessity after the
20 COVID-19 pandemic has abated.
21 SEC. 2. The heading of Part 2 (commencing with Section 9510)
22 of Division 4.8 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:
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24 PART 2. STREET LIGHT POLES, TRAFFIC SIGNAL POLES,
25 UTILITY41GL-E-S POLES, AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES
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27 SEC. 3. Section 9510 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
28 to read:
29 9510. (a) The Legislature finds and declares `'�ra-e that,
30 to promote wireline and wireless broadband access and adoption,
31 it is in the interest of the state to ensure that local governments
32 and local publicly owned electric utilities, including irrigation
33 districts, that own or control street light poles, traffic signal poles,
34 utility -poles poles, and support structures, including ducts and
35 conduits, as applicable, make available appropriate space and
36 capacity on and in those structures to cable television corporations,
37 video service providers, and telephone corporations under
38 reasonable rates, terms, and conditions.
39 (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the oversight
40 of fees and other requirements imposed by local publicly owned
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1 electric utilities or local governments as a condition of providing
2 the space or capacity described in subdivision (a) is a matter of
3 statewide interest and concern. Therefore, it is the intent of the
4 Legislature that this part supersedes all conflicting local laws and
5 this part shall apply in charter cities.
6 (c) The Legislature further finds and declares that local publicly
7 owned electric utilities and local governments should provide
8 access to street light poles, traffic signal poles, utility-peleg poles,
9 and supportstmetttreg structures, as applicable, with--ft
10 nondiscriminatory fees that allow for the recovery of reasonable
11 actual costs without subsidizing for -profit cable television
12 corporations, video service providers, and telephone corporations.
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14 SEC. 4. Section 9510.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
15 to read:
16 9510.5. As used in this part, the following terms have the
17 following meanings:
18 (a) "Communications service provider" means a cable television
19 corporation, video service provider, or telephone corporation.
20 (b) "Governing body" means the governing body of a local
21 government or local publicly owned electric utility, including,
22 where applicable, a board appointed by a city council.
23 (c) "Local government" means a city, including a charter city,
24 county, or city and county.
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26 (d) "Street light pole" means a pole, arm, or fixture used
27 primarily for street, pedestrian, or security lighting.
28 (e) "Traffic signal pole" means a pole, arm, or fixture used
29 primarily for signaling traffic flow
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31 (f) "Utility pole" means an electrical pole, electrical transmission
32 tower, or telephone pole, but does not include a street light pole
33 or an electrical pole used solely for the transmission of electricity
34 at 50 kilovolts or higher and not intended for distribution of
35 communications signals or electricity at lower voltages.
36 SEC. 5. Section 9511 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
37 to read:
38 9511. (a) (1) (A) A local publicly owned electric utility shall
39 make appropriate space and capacity on and in a street light pole,
40 traffic signal pole, utility-pe}e pole, and support structure owned
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1 or controlled by the local publicly owned electric utility available
2 for use by a communications service provider pursuant to
3 reasonable terms and conditions.
4 (B) Rates, terms, and conditions that are specified in a contract
5 executed with a local publicly owned electric utility before January
6 1, 2012, shall remain valid until the contract, rate, term, or
7 condition expires or is terminated according to its terms by one of
8 the parties. If an annual fee is included in a contract executed
9 before January 1, 2012, but the amount of the fee is left
10 unspecified, the requirements of Section 9512 apply.
11 (2) (A) A local government shall make appropriate space and
12 capacity on and in a street light pole, traffic signal pole, and
13 support structure owned or controlled by the local government
14 available for use by a communications service provider pursuant
15 to reasonable terms and conditions.
16 (B) Unless the communications service provider and local
17 government otherwise agree, if the contractual rates exceed two
18 hundred seventy dollars ($270) per year per pole, the rates, terms,
19 and conditions that are specified in a contract executed before
20 January 14, 2019, shall remain valid only for wireless equipment
21 that has already been attached to a pole by a communications
22 service provider before January 1, 2022, and only until the
23 contract, rate, term, or condition expires or is terminated according
24 to its terms by one of the parties.
25 (b) (1) A local publicly owned electric utility or a local
26 government shall respond to a request for use by a communications
27 service provider of a street light pole, traffic signal pole, utility
28 pole pole, or supporter structure, as applicable, owned or
29 controlled by the local publicly owned electric utility or local
30 government within 45 days of the date of receipt of the request, or
31 60 days if the request is to attach to over 300 poles. If the request
32 is denied, the local publicly owned electric utility or local
33 government shall provide in the response the reason for the denial
34 and the remedy to gain access to the street light pole, traffic signal
35 pole, utility -pole pole, or support structure. If a request to attach
36 is accepted, the local publicly owned electric; utility or local
37 government, within 14 days after acceptance of the request, shall
38 provide a nondiscriminatory cost estimate, based on reasonable
39 actual cost, as described in the Federal Communications
40 Commission's Declaratory Ruling on Wireless Broadband
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1 Deployment (FCC 18-133, 33 FCC Rcd 9088 (2018)), for any
2 necessary make-ready work required to accommodate the
3 attachment. The requesting party shall accept or reject the
4 make-ready cost estimate within 14 days. Within 60 days of
5 acceptance of the cost estimate, the local publicly owned electric
6 utility or local government shall notify any existing third -parry
7 attachers that make-ready work for a new attacher needs to be
8 performed. The requesting party shall have the responsibility to
9 coordinate with third -party existing attachers for make-ready work
10 to be completed. All parties shall complete all make-ready work
11 within 60 days of the notice, or within 105 days in the case of a
12 request to attach to over 300 poles. The local publicly owned
13 electric utility or local government may complete make-ready
14 work without the consent of the existing attachers, if the existing
15 attachers fail to move their attachments by the end of the
16 make-ready timeline requirements specified in this paragraph.
17 (2) The timelines described in paragraph (1) may be extended
18 under special circumstances upon agreement of the local publicly
19 owned electric utility or local government and the communications
20 service provider.
21 (c) A -Unless the communication service provider agrees to
22 replace the street light pole, traffic signal pole, utility pole, or
23 support structure, a local publicly owned electric utility or local
24 government may deny an application for use of a street light pole,
25 traffic signal pole, utility-pele pole, or support-: structure,
26 as applicable, because of insufficient capacity or safety, reliability,
27 or engineering concerns. In denying an application, a local publicly
28 owned electric utility or local government may also take into
29 account the manner in which a request from a communications
30 service provider under this part could impact an approved project
31 for future use by the local publicly owned electric utility or the
32 local government of its street light poles, traffic signal poles, utility
33 poleg poles or support structures for delivery of its core utility or
34 municipal service.
35 (d) This part does not limit the authority of a local publicly
36 owned electric utility or local government to ensure compliance
37 with all applicable provisions of law in determining whether to
38 approve or disapprove use of a street light pole, traffic signal pole,
39 utility -pole pole, or supporteta structure, as applicable.
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SEC. 6. Section 9511.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
9511.5. (a) ff-tt-A local publicly owned electric utility or local
government that has the authority pursuant to other law to impose
a fee to provide the use described in Section-9-5-l—tii� 9511 shall
adopt and levy only the fee described
in Section 9511, consistent with the requirements of this part.
(b) The governing body of the local publicly owned electric
utility or a local government shall determine the fee pursuant to
Section 9512.
(c) This part does not grant additional authority to a local
publicly owned electric utility or local government to impose a
fee that is not otherwise authorized by law.
SEC. 7. Section 9512 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
9512. (a) (1) An annual fee charged by a local publicly owned
electric utility or a local government for the use of a street light
pole, traffic signal pole, or utility -pole pole, as applicable, by a
communications service provider for an attachment shall be
imposed pursuant to reasonable terms and conditions, and shall
not exceed an amount determined by multiplying the percentage
of the total usable space that would be occupied by the attachment
by the annual costs of ownership of the pole and its supporting
anchor. As used in this paragraph and paragraph (2), "usable space"
means the space above the minimum grade level that can be used
for the attachment of wires, cables, and associated equipment. It
shall be presumed, subject to factual rebuttal, that a single
attachment occupies one foot of usable space and that an average
street light pole, traffic signal pole, or utility pole contains 13.5
feet of usable space.
(2) An annual fee charged by a local publicly owned electric
utility or local government for use of a support structure by a
communications service provider shall not exceed the local publicly
owned electric utility's or local government's annual costs of
ownership of the percentage of the volume of the capacity of the
structure rendered unusable by the equipment of the
communications service provider.
(3) As used in this subdivision, the "annual costs of ownership"
is the sum of the annual capital costs and annual operation costs
of the -pole street light pole, traffic signal pole, utility pole, or
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support structure, which shall be the average costs of all similar
street light poles, traffic signal poles, utility -roles poles, or
structures owned or controlled by the local publicly owned electric
utility or local government. The basis for the computation
of annual capital costs shall be historical capital costs less
depreciation. The accounting upon which the historical capital
costs are determined shall include a credit for all reimbursed capital
costs. Depreciation shall be based upon the average service life of
the street light pole, traffic signal pole, utility -pole pole, or support
structure. "Annual cost of ownership" does not include costs for
any property not necessary for use by the communications service
provider.
(b) (1) A local publicly owned electric utility or local
government shall not levy a fee that exceeds the estimated amount
required to provide use of the street light pole, traffic signal pole,
utilityale pole, or support-s�e structure, as applicable, for
which the annual recurring fee is levied. If the fee creates revenues
in excess of actual costs, those revenues shall be used to reduce
the fee.
(2) A local publicly owned electric utility or local government
establishes a rebuttable presumption that its fees are based on
reasonable actual costs if they conform to the presumptively
reasonable fees set forth in the Federal Communications
Commission's Declaratory Ruling on Wireless Broadband
Deployment (FCC 18-133, 33 FCC Rcd 9088 (2018)).
(c) A jointly owned pole is not included within the requirements
of this section, if a joint owner other than the local publicly owned
electric utility or local government has control of access to the
space that would be used by the communications service provider.
SEC. 8. Section 9513 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
9513. (a) A local publicly owned electric utility or local
government may require an additional one-time charge equal to
three years of the annual fee described in Section 9512, for
attachments reasonably shown to have been made without
authorization that are discovered on or after January 1, 2012.
(b) A local publicly owned electric utility or local government
may remove an attachment made without authorization, if all of
the following conditions are met:
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1 (1) The owner of the attachment fails to pay the charge described
2 in subdivision (a), if that charge is applicable.
3 (2) The owner of the attachment does not seek approval to attach
4 pursuant to this part within a reasonable period of time.
5 (3) The owner of the attachment does not contest that the
6 attachment was made without authorization.
7 (c) An attachment of a service drop wire is not made without
8 authorization for the purposes of this section, if the owner of the
9 attachment seeks approval to attach pursuant to this part within 45
10 days of the attachment.
11 SEC. 9. Section 9514 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
12 to read:
13 9514. This part shall not be construed to prohibit
14 a local publicly owned electric utility or local government from
15 requiring a one-time fee to process a request for attachment, if the
16 one-time fee does not exceed the actual cost of processing the
17 request.
18 SEC. 10. Section 9514.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
19 to read:
20 9514.5. This part does not prohibit a wireless service provider
21 and a local government from mutually agreeing to a rate, charge,
22 term, or condition that is different from that provided in this part.
23 Either party may withdraw from a negotiation for an agreement
24 upon written notice to the other party.
25 SEC. 11. Section 9515 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
26 to read:
27 9515. (a) In the event that it becomes necessary for the local
28 publicly owned electric utility or local government to use space
29 or capacity on or in a support structure occupied by the
30 communications service provider's equipment, the communications
31 service provider shall either pay all costs for rearrangements
32 necessary to maintain the pole attachment or remove its equipment
33 at its own expense.
34 (b) (1) If the communications service provider requests a
35 rearrangement of -the a street light pole, traffic signal pole, utility
36 pule pole, or support structure of a local publicly owned electric
37 utility, and the local publicly owned electric utility has the authority
38 to levy fees as described in Section 9511.5, the local publicly
39 owned electric utility may charge a one-time reimbursement fee
40 for the actual costs incurred for the rearrangement.
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1 (2) If the communication service provider requests a
2 rearrangement of a street light pole, traffic signal pole, or
3 supporting structure of a local government, the local government
4 may charge a one-time reimbursement fee for the actual costs
5 incurred for the rearrangement.
6 SEC. 2.
7 SEC. 12. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
8 Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
9 a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
10 charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
11 level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
12 17556 of the Government Code.
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