State research record

Indiana pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Indiana, 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 August 17, 2026 · not certified under Section 224(c) · 7 authorities cited
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Not certified under Section 224(c)Record dated August 17, 2026
Cooperative poles
Yes. IC 8-1-2-5.5 names cooperative pole owners, and Kankakee Valley holds that Commission jurisdiction over a pole dispute survives a cooperative's withdrawal election under IC 8-1-13-18.5
Municipal poles
Yes. IC 8-1-2-5 reaches every municipality and IC 8-1-2-5.5(e)(3) names a municipality providing electric service as a pole owner. Municipal poles sit outside Section 224
Rate standard
Two regimes. Investor owned electric and incumbent telephone poles run on the FCC formulas, and IC 8-1-2-5(b) adds only a bare reasonableness standard with no formula, no ceiling and no presumption. For a cooperative or municipal pole with a cable operator attacher, IC 8-1-2-5.5(i) sets a safe harbour that is a ceiling and a presumption rather than a mandatory rate
Where a dispute goes
The FCC for investor owned electric and incumbent telephone poles. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission for cooperative and municipal poles, with judicial review under IC 8-1-3
Confidence
High confidence on non certification, on both state regimes, on every forum, and on the findings that Indiana sets no attacher limitation period, no Commission decision clock and no make ready timeline of general application; Provisional on carrying the Kankakee Valley reasoning across to the municipal withdrawal statutes and on utility counts. No Indiana deadline or timeline is stated here

AuthoritiesIC 8-1-2-5IC 8-1-2-5.5IC 8-1-13-18.5IC 8-1-347 U.S.C. 224FCC DA 22-630Kankakee Valley Rural Electric Membership Corporation v. United Telephone Company of Indiana, Inc., No. 93A02-0505-EX-463 (Ind. Ct. App. Mar. 17, 2006)

Read the chip above as one fact and no more: whether Indiana 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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