{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.3","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 480A.3","heading":"Fees.","body":"1. A local government shall not recover any fee from a public utility for the use of its available right-of-way, other than a permit fee for management costs attributable to the public utility’s requested use of the local government’s right-of-way. A fee or other obligation under this section shall be imposed on a competitively neutral basis. When a local government’s management costs cannot be attributed to only one entity, those costs shall be allocated among all users of the public rights-of-way, including the local government itself. The allocation shall reflect proportionately the costs incurred by the local government as a result of the various types of uses of the public rights-of-way.\n2. This section does not:\na. Prohibit the collection of a franchise fee as permitted in section 480A.6.\nb. Prohibit voluntary agreements between a public utility and local government to share services for the purpose of reducing costs and preserving public rights-of-way for future public safety purposes.","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.3.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:12Z","sha256":"ea99eabf3783ded6526198b4f954469c7dbb9d95da9f1aa2f467f1dfa732cd92","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.2","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-480a.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}