Broadband service; prescriptive easements. (HB1068)

Introduced By

Del. Kaye Kory (D-Falls Church) with support from co-patron Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-Woodbridge)

Description

Broadband service; prescriptive easements. Provides that if a public service company has acquired a prescriptive easement pursuant to which it has the right to poles and wires to provide electric service, its rights under that prescriptive easement shall be deemed to include the right to grant to a provider of broadband or other telecommunications services the rights to attach its wires and facilities to the public service company's poles and to enter upon the right-of-way to install and maintain the wires and facilities without the approval of the owner of the servient tract of land. Read the Bill »

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