HB 1068

  • Virginia House Bill
  • 2020 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Jan 07, 2020
  • House
  • Senate
  • Governor

Broadband service; prescriptive easements.

Abstract

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.

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Feb 11, 2020

House

Left in Communications, Technology and Innovation

Feb 06, 2020

House

Impact statement from SCC (HB1068)

Feb 03, 2020

House

Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (10-Y 0-N)

Jan 16, 2020

House

Assigned CT & I sub: Communications

Jan 07, 2020

House

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102905D

House

Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation

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Impact statement from SCC (HB1068) HTML

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