California Small Cell Bill to Severely Limit Local Government Control of Street Lights and Traffic Signal Poles | Best Best & Krieger LLP
Oppose SB 556: Hearing Set for April 19 Four years after California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 649, an industry-sponsored “small cell” bill, the wireless industry is back with another bill: SB 556. The new bill would dramatically expand the scope of an existing law that allows communications companies to use municipal electric “utility poles” for their wireline and wireless facilities. This would be done by broadening the types of public infrastructure that must be made available to include light poles and traffic signal poles, among others, and applying the law to more than ...
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