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LD873 • 2025

An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits

An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits

Energy Technology
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Mana Abdi
Last action
2025-04-22
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits

An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits Sponsor: Representative Mana Abdi Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits Sponsor: Representative Mana Abdi Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-22 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-04-17 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-04-15 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-04-04 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP/ONTP

  5. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  7. 2025-03-04 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits
Sponsor:
Representative Mana Abdi
Reference committee:
Energy, Utilities and Technology
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Page 1 - 132LR1455(02)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 559 - L.D. 873
An Act to Expand Municipal Authority over Utility Pole Permits
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §2517, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 753, §13, is further
amended to read:
1. Revocation of pole location by municipal officers. When the municipal officers
of a municipality having a population of more than 40,000 30,000 inhabitants determine,
after notice and hearing, that public safety and the public welfare require the revocation of
a location for poles for conveying electricity or for the transmission of telephone messages
already erected in a public street or way other than a state or a state-aid highway outside
the compact area of an urban compact municipality as defined in Title 23, section 754, they
may revoke the location and order the poles removed. The person that owns the poles shall
remove them within a reasonable time. Other suitable locations or the right to use other
poles jointly must be granted by the municipal officers to the person.
APPROVED
APRIL 22, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
38
PUBLIC LAW