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Utah Code § 54-21-207: Underground district.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 54 Public Utilities
  2. Chapter 54-21 Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act
  3. Part 54-21-2 Use of Right-of-way for Small Wireless Facilities and Utility Poles

A wireless provider shall comply with an authority's prohibition on a communications service provider installing a structure in the right-of-way in an area designated solely for underground or buried cable and utility facilities, if:

(1) the prohibition is reasonable and nondiscriminatory; and

(2) the authority:

(a)

(i) requires that all cable and utility facilities, other than an authority pole and attachment, be placed underground; and

(ii) establishes the requirement in Subsection (2)(a)(i) more than 90 days before the day on which the applicant submits the application;

(b) does not prohibit the replacement of an authority pole in the designated area; and

(c) permits a wireless provider to seek a waiver, that is administered in a nondiscriminatory manner, of the undergrounding requirement for the placement of a new utility pole to support a small wireless facility.

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