New telecom laws were signed in Conn. and Ill. and a bill was vet...
New telecom laws were signed in Conn. and Ill. and a bill was vetoed in Hawaii. Conn. Gov. John Rowland (R) signed 2 telecom tower bills. The first (SB-1098) allows municipalities to assess and tax telecom towers taller than…
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20’ as real estate. Rowland also signed HB-6428 allowing telecom towers to be erected in agricultural zones as long as they don’t materially decrease arable acreage or farm productivity. Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed HB-873 that exempts wireless carriers from having to file monthly reports of earnings and expenses. He also signed HB-16 to require telecom and energy utilities and cable companies to disclose location information about subscribers being sought by the state for child support enforcement. Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle (R) vetoed a bill (SB-1547) that would have appropriated $43,000 from the state universal service fund for a pilot project to provide blind people with toll-free telephone access to content of newspapers, magazines and other time-sensitive information.