{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-40-42","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 50-40-42","heading":"Decertification by department.","body":"A political subdivision that the department has certified as a broadband ready community under Code Section 50-40-41 may be decertified by the department if it:\n(1) Imposes an unreasonable or noncost based fee to review an application or issue a permit for a broadband network project. Any application fee that exceeds $100.00 shall be considered unreasonable unless such political subdivision can provide documentation justifying such fee based on a specific cost;\n(2) Imposes a moratorium of any kind on the approval of applications or issuance of permits for broadband network projects or on construction related to broadband network projects;\n(3) Discriminates among broadband services providers with respect to any action described in this article or otherwise related to a broadband network project, including granting access to public rights of way, infrastructure and poles, river and bridge crossings, or any other physical assets owned or controlled by such political subdivision; or\n(4) As a condition for approving an application or issuing a permit for a broadband network project, requires the applicant to:\n(A) Provide any service or make available any part of the broadband network project to such political subdivision; or\n(B) Except for reasonable and cost based fees allowed, make any payment to or on behalf of such political subdivision.","path":["TITLE 50 State Government","CHAPTER 40 Promotion and Deployment of Broadband Services","Article 3 Broadband Communities"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.50.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:58Z","sha256":"2e34151f6ed49095d87786394dc8d6c44fe3aab5b574337efbccf07c31449207","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-40-41","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-40-43"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}