2022 Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.
Chapter 17 - Small Wireless Facilities
Section 37-17-4 - Collocation of Small Wireless Facilities; Performance of Make-Ready Work; Costs.

Section 37-17-4

Collocation of small wireless facilities; performance of make-ready work; costs.

(a) Subject to Sections 37-17-2, 37-17-3, and 37-17-5, an authority shall allow the collocation of small wireless facilities on existing poles, other than any poles owned by an electric provider, owned or controlled by an authority and the mounting or installation of small wireless facilities on replacement poles, other than any poles owned by an electric provider, owned or controlled by an authority on nondiscriminatory terms and conditions that comply with this chapter.

(b) For structures owned or controlled by an authority, an authority may provide a wireless provider the option of either having the wireless provider perform any necessary make-ready work through the use of qualified contractors or having the authority perform any necessary make-ready work at the sole cost of the wireless provider. If the authority performs the make-ready work, the authority shall provide a good faith estimate of the make-ready work, including any pole replacement costs. Make-ready work shall be completed within 60 days after a written acceptance of the good faith estimate by the applicant.

(c) On completion of the make-ready work performed by an authority at the request of a wireless provider, the wireless provider, within 60 days of invoicing, shall reimburse the authority for the authority's actual and documented cost of the make-ready work, including labor and materials. The cost invoiced to the wireless provider may not exceed the good faith estimate by more than 10 percent.

(Act 2021-5, §4.)