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Louisiana pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Louisiana, 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 12, 2026 · certified under Section 224(c) · 5 authorities cited
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Certified under Section 224(c)Record dated August 12, 2026
Cooperative poles
Yes, fully, and the Revised Statutes read the other way. La. R.S. 45:1163 appears to let a cooperative exempt itself, but Cajun Electric Power Cooperative v. LPSC (La. 1989) held the constitutional grant plenary and that statute unconstitutional insofar as it permits the exemption. La. R.S. 12:430.1 separately binds cooperatives to the Commission's pole order by name
Municipal poles
No, and Louisiana inverts the usual pattern. Municipal and parish systems are the unregulated class, outside the Commission by the state constitution and outside Section 224. Roughly twenty one systems, contract and ordinance only
Rate standard
Not established. Louisiana is certified, so the FCC cable and telecom formulas do not govern a Louisiana pole and must not be used to benchmark one. The operative Commission general order in Docket R-26968 could not be obtained, so no Louisiana rate methodology, ceiling or state clock is established here
Where a dispute goes
Louisiana Public Service Commission for every private owner including cooperatives, never the FCC, because Louisiana is certified. Municipal and parish poles go to district court on the contract
Confidence
High confidence on certification, cooperative regulation and the constitutional holding behind it, the municipal exclusion and the La. R.S. 12:430.1 duties; Good confidence on the 1978 certification date and the utility counts; the rate methodology, any rate ceiling and every state timeline are not established, because the operative Commission general order could not be retrieved and is not published

AuthoritiesLa. R.S. 12:430.1La. R.S. 45:1163La. R.S. 45:121Cajun Electric Power Coop. v. LPSC, 544 So. 2d 362 (La. 1989)FCC DA 22-630

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