West Virginia has received preliminary approval for over $32 million in funding for broadband projects at the West Virginia Broadband Summit. The funds will be allocated to two programs, Line
Broadband in West Virginia saw a major boost as more than $32 million for broadband projects was given preliminary approval at the the inaugural West Virginia Broadband Summit.
In a long line of cases, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Supreme Court) has held that the Code generally preempts the field of public utility regulation.
In February 2021, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) issued a declaratory order finding that a utility did not need to pay certain municipal permitting fees because those.
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Code (Code) gives the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) extensive authority to regulate public utilities in Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held that the General Assembly intended that the Code would create a uniform, statewide regulatory scheme.
1 To avoid overlaying this statewide scheme with a crazy quilt of local regulations, municipalities are generally preempted from regulating public utilities.
Nevertheless, disputes frequently arise between public utilities and municipalities over the authority of municipalities to regulate public utility facilities in public rights-of-way (ROWs). This is partly because the Pennsylvania Business Corporations Law of 1988 states that public utilities have the right to enter into and occupy ROWs, but “[b]efore entering upon any street, highway, or other public way, the public utility corporation shall obtain such permi