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2025 Utah Code
Title 54 - Public Utilities
Chapter 21 - Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act
Part 2 - Use of Right-of-way for Small Wireless Facilities and Utility Poles
Section 207 - Underground district.
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UT Code § 54-21-207 (2025)
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Effective 9/1/2018
54-21-207. Underground district.
A wireless provider shall comply with an authority's prohibition on a communications service provider installing a structure in the right-of-way in an area designated solely for underground or buried cable and utility facilities, if:
Enacted by Chapter 299, 2018 General Session
54-21-207. Underground district.
A wireless provider shall comply with an authority's prohibition on a communications service provider installing a structure in the right-of-way in an area designated solely for underground or buried cable and utility facilities, if:
- (1) the prohibition is reasonable and nondiscriminatory; and
- (2) the authority:
- (a)
- (i) requires that all cable and utility facilities, other than an authority pole and attachment, be placed underground; and
- (ii) establishes the requirement in Subsection (2)(a)(i) more than 90 days before the day on which the applicant submits the application;
- (b) does not prohibit the replacement of an authority pole in the designated area; and
- (c) permits a wireless provider to seek a waiver, that is administered in a nondiscriminatory manner, of the undergrounding requirement for the placement of a new utility pole to support a small wireless facility.
- (a)
Enacted by Chapter 299, 2018 General Session
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