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57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

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SB 1620: Arizona space commission; board; membership

S/E: utility relocation notification

Sponsor: Senator Gowan, LD 19

Committee on Government

Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to SB 1620

Overview

Instructs a municipality to provide public notice of any voter-approved municipal bond project and to develop a relocation reimbursement process regarding telecommunications utility relocation.

History

A telecommunications utility must receive reimbursement for relocation costs for construction projects in a municipality that is undertaken individually or jointly by an intergovernmental contract and is funded in whole or in part by voter-approved municipal bond proceeds that need to be relocated. If the telecommunications utility has existing land rights or its facility is in the right-of-way under a permit, the municipality must provide a location with equal rights to the previous location. If there are no existing land rights, the reimbursement for relocation costs is capped at 2% of the total project monies. The total project monies is the aggregate dollar amount of voter-approved municipal bond proceeds that fund a construction project from time to time (A.R.S. § 9-461.17).

Provisions

1.   Directs a municipality to:

a.   provide the telecommunications utility with public notice of any voter-approved municipal bond project at least 30 days before a request to relocate; and

b.   develop a relocation reimbursement process for relocation costs of a telecommunications utility's facilities. (Sec. 1)

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