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Mississippi pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Mississippi, 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 13, 2026 · not certified under Section 224(c) · 5 authorities cited
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Mississippi

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Not certified under Section 224(c)Record dated August 13, 2026
Cooperative poles
Access yes, rate no. Miss. Code Ann. 77-5-235(4) gives an attacher a real state law right of access to electric power association poles, and denial is permitted only for insufficient capacity or safety and reliability and only where the attacher will not resolve the issue. The rate is set by the association's own board and is not regulated
Municipal poles
No. Roughly twenty five municipal systems sit outside Section 224, outside the Electric Power Associations Act and outside Commission rate jurisdiction. Contract and ordinance only, with no Mississippi rate ceiling of any kind
Rate standard
No Mississippi rate standard exists for any owner class. Investor owned poles run on the FCC formulas. Association rates are board set with no formula, no ceiling and no reasonableness standard, disciplined only by an affiliate fee parity rule where the association has a broadband affiliate
Where a dispute goes
The FCC for investor owned electric and telephone poles, because Mississippi has not certified and its Commission has issued no attachment rule. For association poles the forum is not established: the statute preserves prior Commission jurisdiction only if any existed, and none has been demonstrated
Confidence
High confidence on non certification proved two independent ways, the whole of the attachment section including the access duty and the savings clause, the width of the Commission carve outs, the affiliate parity rule, the municipal exclusions, and the total absence of any Commission attachment rule proved by reading the rules; Good confidence on the federal entity footprint; Provisional on the statutory character of the Commission and on the distinction of the leading case from the attachment question

AuthoritiesMiss. Code Ann. 77-5-235Miss. Code Ann. 77-3-5Miss. Code Ann. 77-17-5Miss. Code Ann. 77-5-259FCC DA 22-630

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