The Wireless Consumer Advanced Infrastructure Investment Act does not:
A. affect the authority, under state or federal law, of an investor-owned electric utility or electric cooperative that owns, controls or operates utility poles or wireless support structures to deny, limit, restrict or determine the rates, fees, terms and conditions for the use of, or attachment to, those poles or structures by a wireless provider;
B. confer on an authority any zoning, land use, planning, permitting or other regulatory authority over the utility poles, wireless support structures or small wireless facilities owned, controlled or operated by an investor-owned electric utility or electric cooperative or the installation of those poles, structures or facilities by an investor-owned electric utility or electric cooperative;
C. impose a duty, liability or restriction on any investor-owned electric utility or electric cooperative;
D. amend, modify or otherwise affect the provisions affecting a private easement; or
E. authorize an authority to:
(1) require of a public telecommunications company that provides telecommunications services under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the state an additional grant of authority to provide those services; or
(2) discriminate against such a company in its use of rights of way.
History: Laws 2018, ch. 17, § 9 and Laws 2018, ch. 69, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSDuplicate laws. — Laws 2018, ch. 17, § 9 and Laws 2018, ch. 69, § 9, both effective September 1, 2018, enacted identical new sections. The section was set out as enacted Laws 2018, ch. 69, § 9. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.