HF 2277 (LSB 5470HV (3) 86)

RELATING TO UTILITY FACILITIES OF ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION OWNERS WITHIN PUBLIC ROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 306.46, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  For purposes of this section, “public utility” means a public utility as defined in section 476.1, and shall also include waterworks, municipally owned waterworks, joint water utilities, rural water districts incorporated under chapter 357A or chapter 504, and cooperative water associations, and electric transmission owners as defined in section 476.27 primarily providing service to public utilities as defined in section 476.1. For the purposes of this section, “utility facilities” means any cables, conduits, wire, pipe, casing

 pipe, supporting poles, guys, and other material and equipment utilized for the furnishing of electric, gas, communications, water, or sewer service.

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LINDA UPMEYER

Speaker of the House

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PAM JOCHUM

President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2277, Eighty-sixth General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2016

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD

Governor