Bill Text: CA AB1549 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Transportation: state highway rights-of-way: broadband: fiber optic cables.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 505, Statutes of 2016. [AB1549 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1549-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1549	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

   An act to add Section 14051 to the Government Code, relating to
highways.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1549, as amended, Wood.  Department of Transportation: state
highway rights-of-way: fiber-optic cables: inventory.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has
full possession and control of state highways and associated
property. Existing law provides for the department to issue
encroachment permits with respect to structures and activities in,
under, or over any portion of the right-of-way of a state highway.
   This bill would require the department to maintain an inventory of
all conduits  owned by the department  that house
fiber-optic communication  cables   cables, that
are  located on state highway  rights-of-way, 
 rights-of-way, and that were installed on or after January 1,
2017,  and to make that information available to the public upon
request.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14051 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   14051.  The department shall maintain an inventory of all conduits
 owned by the department  that house fiber-optic
communication  cables   cables, that are 
located on state highway  rights-of-way.  
rights-of-way, and that were installed on or after January 1, 2017.
 The department shall make the information available to the
public upon request.