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1999 SESSION

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SB 986 Public rights-of-way use fees; abolished.

Introduced by: Charles R. Hawkins | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Public rights-of-way; mileage-based fees; costs of relocating telecommunication facilities in public rights-of-way. Effectively repeals 1998 legislation (Chapters 742 and 758 of the 1998 Acts of Assembly) which established the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee (the "Fee"), to be used for the collection of fees from certificated providers of local exchange telecommunications service for the use of public rights-of-way. The fee replaced any and all fees of general application for use of public rights-of-way for localities whose public streets and roads are maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Localities that maintain their own roads were authorized by the legislation to impose the fee by ordinance. Localities imposing the fee and the Commonwealth Transportation Board were permitted to collect, in an equal amount each month, an annual amount calculated by charging an established amount for (i) the number of miles of public highway and (ii) the number of feet of new installations installed in existing public rights-of-way. The fee is determined by dividing the sum of the total amount from highway mileage and new installations by the total number of access lines in participating localities. The amount is now included, as a separate item, on each consumer's monthly local exchange billing statement in an amount of no less than 50 cents per access line.


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