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Section 4939.04 | Management, regulation, and administration of public ways by municipal corporations.

Ohio Revised Code
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Title 49 Public Utilities
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Chapter 4939 Use Of Municipal Public Way
 
Effective:
July 2, 2002
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly
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(A)(1) A municipal corporation shall provide public utilities or cable operators with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to its public ways.

(2) Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section prohibits a municipal corporation from establishing priorities for access to or occupancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all public way occupants or users, which priorities as applied to public utilities or cable operators shall not be unduly discriminatory and shall be competitively neutral.

(B) The management, regulation, and administration of a public way by a municipal corporation with regard to matters of local concern shall be presumed to be a valid exercise of the power of local self-government granted by Section 3 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution.

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