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2025 Utah Code
Title 54 - Public Utilities
Chapter 23 - Crossing Railroad Rights-of-way by Fiber Optic Carriers
Section 102 - Definitions.
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UT Code § 54-23-102 (2025)
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Effective 5/14/2019
54-23-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
Enacted by Chapter 452, 2019 General Session
54-23-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Consumer price index" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food & Energy, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
- (2)
- (a) "Crossing" means a telecommunications facility constructed under or across a railroad right-of-way:
- (i) at an angle between 80 degrees and 100 degrees;
- (ii) with a minimum depth of:
- (A) 10 feet below rail level for nonhorizontal directional drilling; or
- (B) 15 feet below rail for horizontal directional drilling; and
- (iii) within a county that is not a county of the first class.
- (b) "Crossing" does not include longitudinal occupancy of railroad right-of-way.
- (a) "Crossing" means a telecommunications facility constructed under or across a railroad right-of-way:
- (3) "Facility" or "telecommunications facility" means fiber optics or related conduit installed in a crossing.
- (4) "Fiber optic carrier" means a telecommunications corporation or a telecommunications corporation's contractor or agent.
Enacted by Chapter 452, 2019 General Session
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