SB391 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Clay Scofield
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Municipality, telecommunication services, right-of-way, compensation required to be cost based, Sec. 11-50B-3 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a municipality or municipal instrumentality may provide telecommunication services. The law specifies that state and local governmental agencies may require fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunication providers for use of public rights-of-way.
This bill would specify that rights-of-way fees would be required to be cost-based.
Subjects: Municipalities

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation and Energy