South Carolina Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act
South Carolina · Public Utilities, Services and Carriers · §§ 58-11-800 to 58-11-930 · 16 sections
Overview
The act governs the deployment of small wireless facilities — small-cell equipment and the poles that support it — within public rights-of-way, and sets the terms on which local authorities may regulate that deployment. Its central mechanism is a standardized permitting process for collocating small wireless facilities: it prescribes what an application must contain, requires applications to be processed on a nondiscriminatory basis, limits the grounds for denial, and caps the rates and fees an authority may charge for right-of-way access and pole attachment. It also constrains local zoning and land-use authority over such facilities while carving out protections for decorative poles, underground districts, and historic districts, and it addresses provider obligations such as repairing damage to the right-of-way, abandonment of facilities, insurance, indemnification, and bonding, along with a designated forum for resolving disputes between providers and authorities.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-800Short title; legislative findings
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-810Definitions
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-815Agreements predating this act; application of article
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-820Provisions applying to activities of wireless provider within ROW to deploy small wireless facilities and associated poles; limitations on new or modified poles; decorative poles; installation of poles in underground and historic districts; repair of damage to ROW; abandonment of small wireless facility; business license taxes
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-830Applications for permits for the collocation of small wireless facilities; requirements; fees; application review
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-840Processing of applications to collocate small wireless facilities on a nondiscriminatory basis; conditions for denial; nondiscriminatory terms and conditions
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-850Rates and fees for the collocation of a small wireless facility
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-853Wireline backhaul facilities
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-857No interference with existing infrastructure, equipment, or service
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-860Activities in the ROW
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-870Authority's exercise of zoning, land use, planning, and permitting authority; limitations
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-880Article does not apply to poles owned by investor-owned utility; exception
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-900Jurisdiction of Administrative Law Court over disputes
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-910Indemnification; insurance; bonding requirements
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-920Conditioning access to ROW on wireless provider's seeking or obtaining certificate or other authority from Public Service Commission of South Carolina
- S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-930Meetings with requesting authority
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