Municipalities are required by state law to manage the activity of utilities and service providers in the public rights-of-way. This causes significant costs to the municipality. Most likely, your municipality is “under-recovering” these costs from utilities and service providers. If your municipality is not receiving the revenue it deserves for cost recovery, then your taxpayers are effectively subsidizing the service providers.

The attorneys at the Broadband Law Firm work with municipalities to develop and implement fee schedules that recover municipal costs. In addition to achieving cost recovery, the implementation of a Right-of-Way Management Ordinance improves municipal oversight and control of the public rights-of-way by (1) establishing a streamlined permitting process; (2) requiring coordination of utility construction activities; (3) obtaining facilities mapping and related information; and (4) and providing indemnification and legal protections for the municipality.

The Broadband Law Firm has the expertise and experience to guide municipalities through the rights-of-way management process. Our attorneys also represent municipalities in negotiations with service providers for rights-of-way agreements and pole attachment agreements.

Let’s discuss how the Broadband Law Firm can assist your municipality with public rights-of-way management, cost recovery, fee schedules, and legal protections.