Section 759.650 – Definitions for ORS 759.650 to 759.675.

As used in ORS 759.650 to 759.675, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Attachment” means any wire or cable for the transmission of intelligence by telegraph, telephone or television (including cable television), light waves or other phenomena, or for the transmission of electricity for light, heat or power, and any related device, apparatus or auxiliary […]

Section 759.655 – Authority of commission to regulate attachments.

The Public Utility Commission of Oregon shall have the authority to regulate in the public interest the rates, terms and conditions for attachments by licensees to poles or other facilities of telecommunications utilities. All rates, terms and conditions made, demanded or received by any telecommunications utility for any attachment by a licensee shall be just, […]

Section 759.660 – Fixing charges or rates; criteria; costs of hearing.

(1) Whenever the Public Utility Commission of Oregon finds, after hearing had upon complaint by a licensee or people’s utility district or a telecommunications utility that the rates, terms or conditions demanded, exacted, charged or collected in connection with attachments or availability of surplus space for such attachments are unjust or unreasonable, or that such […]

Section 759.665 – Considerations in determining just and reasonable rate.

A just and reasonable rate shall assure the telecommunications utility or people’s utility district the recovery from the licensee of not less than all the additional costs of providing and maintaining pole attachment space for the licensee nor more than the actual capital and operating expenses, including just compensation, of the telecommunications utility or people’s […]

Section 759.670 – Presumption of reasonableness of rates set by agreement.

Agreements regarding rates, terms and conditions of attachments shall be deemed to be just, fair and reasonable unless the Public Utility Commission finds upon complaint by a telecommunications utility, people’s utility district or licensee party to such agreement and after hearing, that such rates, terms and conditions are adverse to the public interest and fail […]

Section 759.675 – Regulatory procedure.

The procedures of the Public Utility Commission for petition, regulation and enforcement relative to attachments, including any rights of appeal from any decision thereof, shall be the same as those applicable to the commission. [1987 c.447 §27; 1989 c.5 §21]