Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-505

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Activities of wireless providers within right-of-way

Official statutory text

A. The provisions of this section shall apply to activities of

the wireless provider within the right-of-way.

B. A person owning, managing or controlling authority poles in

the right-of-way may not enter into an exclusive arrangement with

any person for the right to attach to such poles. A person who

purchases or otherwise acquires an authority pole is subject to the

requirements of this section.

C. An authority shall allow the collocation of small wireless

facilities on authority poles subject to the application process in

Section 4 of this act and the make-ready process in this section.

The rates, fees and terms for such collocations shall be

nondiscriminatory regardless of the services provided by the

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collocating person, comply with this act and be made available to

wireless providers under Section 10 of this act.

D. The rates, fees and terms and conditions for the make-ready

work to collocate on an authority pole described in the application

shall be nondiscriminatory, competitively neutral and commercially

reasonable and must comply with this act. The authority may perform

the make-ready work necessary to enable the pole to support the

requested collocation by a wireless provider or require the wireless

provider to perform the make-ready work. If the authority elects to

perform the make-ready work, it shall provide a good-faith estimate

for the work, including pole replacement if necessary, within sixty

(60) days after receipt of a complete application. The authority

shall complete any make-ready work it elects to perform, including

any pole replacement, within sixty (60) days of written acceptance

of the good-faith estimate by the applicant. An authority may

require replacement of the authority pole only if it demonstrates

that the collocation would make the authority pole structurally

unsound. The authority may require that the replaced authority pole

have the same functionality as the pole being replaced. If the

authority pole is replaced, the authority shall take ownership of

the new pole and operate authority fixtures on the pole.

The person owning, managing or controlling the authority pole

shall not require more make-ready work than required to meet

applicable codes or industry standards. Fees for make-ready work

shall not include costs related to preexisting or prior damage or

noncompliance. Fees for make-ready work including any pole

replacement shall be reasonable and nondiscriminatory and shall not

exceed actual costs, which may include the amount the authority pays

a professional engineer registered in Oklahoma to review the

wireless provider's make-ready work plans.

E. A wireless provider shall comply with the following

requirements and specifications:

1. Requirements and specifications of the National Electrical

Safety Code, the National Electrical Code and the Occupational

Safety and Health Act, including amendments or revisions to such

requirements or specifications, and in the event of conflict, the

most stringent of such requirements and specifications;

2. Requirements and specifications of general application

adopted by the authority that do not conflict with this act,

including requirements and specifications that concern how equipment

shall be attached to electric distribution poles so they may be

climbed safely; and

3. Notwithstanding subsection D of this section, requirements

and specifications of general application adopted by the authority

concerning make-ready work for authority electric distribution

poles.

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