{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.2","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 480A.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n1. “Local government” means a county, city, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority.\n2. “Management costs” means the reasonable, direct, and fully documented costs a local government actually incurs to manage public rights-of-way.\n3. “Public right-of-way” means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, bridge, cartway, bicycle lane, or public sidewalk in which the local government has an interest, including other dedicated rights-of-way for travel purposes and utility easements. A public right-of-way does not include the airwaves above a public right-of-way with regard to cellular or other nonwire telecommunications or broadcasts service or utility poles owned by a local government or a municipal utility.\n4. “Public utility” means a person owning or operating a facility used for furnishing natural gas by piped distribution system, electricity, communications services not including cable television systems, or water by piped distribution system, to the public for compensation.","path":["Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES (Ch. 455 - 485)","Chapter 480A - PUBLIC UTILITIES IN PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/480A.2.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:12Z","sha256":"0d0f554c56d97d371552641482282f53837e2bc7b554c1d2722690f2d1274e39","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.1","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}