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Georgia pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Georgia, what rate standard applies, where a dispute actually goes and whether cooperative and municipal poles are covered. This is the record we work from, published so you can read it yourself.

Record dated July 29, 2026 · not certified under Section 224(c) · 6 authorities cited
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Not certified under Section 224(c)Record dated July 29, 2026
Cooperative poles
Yes, for electric membership corporations under O.C.G.A. 46-3-200.4, effective 2021-01-01
Municipal poles
No rate regime, and the reason is constitutional rather than a gap the legislature left. Ga. Const. art. III, sec. VI, para. V(d) bars the General Assembly from regulating or fixing the charges of a county or municipally owned utility, and O.C.G.A. 46-3-15 names that paragraph in terms. A silence the next legislature could fill; a constitutional bar it could not. Municipal electric systems are not wholly outside the Commission, though. O.C.G.A. 46-3-12 subjects them to its authority in the same manner as electric light and power companies, with rates, charges and service rules filed with the Commission and subject to O.C.G.A. 46-3-11, but expressly not fixed by it. Whether that filing and nondiscrimination duty reaches an attacher, as distinct from an electric customer, is unlitigated and is recorded here as open
Rate standard
The Georgia PSC sets the rate for electric membership corporations under a just, reasonable, nondiscriminatory and commercially reasonable standard, on a published schedule
Where a dispute goes
Georgia Public Service Commission for electric membership corporations, with expedited adjudication. Investor owned disputes go to the FCC
Confidence
High confidence on the statute, PSC jurisdiction, the rate setting mechanism, the EMC only scope, the constitutional municipal bar and the O.C.G.A. 46-3-12 filing duty; Provisional on the published rate figures and on non-certification; open and untested on whether the 46-3-12 filing duty and the 46-3-11 nondiscrimination duty reach an attacher, and O.C.G.A. 46-3-11 has not itself been read

AuthoritiesO.C.G.A. 46-3-200.4O.C.G.A. 46-3-12O.C.G.A. 46-3-15Ga. Const. art. III, sec. VI, para. V(d)233 Ga. 759, 213 S.E.2d 596 (1975)Ga. PSC Docket 43453

Read the chip above as one fact and no more: whether Georgia has certified under Section 224(c) that it regulates pole attachments itself. It does not settle your pole. Cooperative and municipal poles sit outside federal jurisdiction whether or not a state has certified, so the two owner class lines are the ones that answer the question for the invoice in front of you.

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