2019 Georgia Code
Title 36 - Local Government
Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations
Chapter 66B - Mobile Broadband Infrastructure Leads to Development
§ 36-66B-6. Limitations on local regulations
- In the regulation of the placement or construction of any new wireless facility or wireless support structure, a local governing authority shall not:
(1) Condition the approval of any application for a new wireless support structure on a requirement that a modification or collocation to such structure be subject to a review that is inconsistent with the requirements of Code Section 36-66B-4;
(2) Require the removal of existing wireless support structures or wireless facilities as a condition to approval of an application for a new wireless facility or wireless support structure unless such existing wireless support structure or wireless facility is abandoned and owned by the applicant; or
(3) Require the applicant to place an antenna or other wireless communications equipment on publicly owned land or on a publicly or privately owned water tank, building, or electric transmission tower as an alternative to the location proposed by the applicant.
Code 1981, § 36-66B-6, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 413, § 1/HB 176.
