State research record

Kansas pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Kansas, 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 10, 2026 · not certified under Section 224(c) · 3 authorities cited
The record

Kansas

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Not certified under Section 224(c)Record dated August 10, 2026
Cooperative poles
Conditionally, and the condition is a member vote. Cooperatives are public utilities by default under K.S.A. 66-104(a) and become exempt only by a deregulation election under K.S.A. 66-104d
Municipal poles
No. K.S.A. 66-104(b) and (c) place municipal utilities outside the act, and they sit outside Section 224
Rate standard
No Kansas rate methodology exists for pole attachments. A cooperative that has not deregulated is held only to the general standard that a charge not be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory
Where a dispute goes
Kansas Corporation Commission for a cooperative that has not deregulated, by formal complaint open to any person. District court otherwise. Investor owned disputes go to the FCC
Confidence
High confidence on non-certification, the cooperative default jurisdiction and the exemption mechanism, the municipal exclusions and the complaint grounds; Provisional on the negative findings proved by absence. The Commission route is High confidence as text and untested as applied

AuthoritiesK.S.A. 66-104(a)K.S.A. 66-104dK.A.R. 82-1-220(a)

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