Utah Code § 54-21-502

Right-of-way rates
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(1) Except as described in Subsection (2), an authority may not require a wireless provider to
pay any rate, fee, or compensation to the authority, or to any other person, beyond what is
expressly authorized in this chapter, for the right to use or occupy a right-of-way:
(a) for the collocation of a small wireless facility on a utility pole in the right-of-way; or
(b) for the installation, operation, modification, maintenance, or replacement of a utility pole in the
right-of-way.
(2)
(a) An authority may charge a wireless provider a rate for the right to use or occupy a right-of-
way as described in Subsection (1), if, except as provided in Subsection 54-21-601(6), the
rate is:

(i) fair and reasonable;
(ii) competitively neutral;
(iii) nondiscriminatory;
(iv) directly related to the wireless provider's actual use of the right-of-way; and
(v) not more than the greater of:
(A) 3.5% of all gross revenue related to the wireless provider's use of the right-of-way for
small wireless facilities; or
(B) $250 annually for each small wireless facility.
(b) A wireless provider subject to a rate under this Subsection (2) shall remit payments to the
authority on a monthly basis.
(c) A rate charged in accordance with Subsection (2)(a)(v) is presumed to be fair and reasonable.
(3) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), an authority may not require a wireless provider to pay an
additional rate, fee, or compensation for the right to use or occupy a right-of-way as described
in Subsection (1), if the wireless provider is subject to the municipal telecommunications license
tax under Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 4, Municipal Telecommunications License Tax Act.

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