Registration and Permit for placing, maintaining or collocating Communications Facilities in City Rights-of-Way associated with Collocation of Small Wireless Facilities or Small Wireless Sole Purpose New Utility Poles.
Jacksonville Ordinance Code § 711.427
in effectSec. 711.427. - Registration and Permit for placing, maintaining or collocating Communications Facilities in City Rights-of-Way associated with Collocation of Small Wireless Facilities or Small Wireless Sole Purpose New Utility Poles.
(a) Registration required. A Communications Services Provider that desires to place, maintain, or Collocate a Small Cell Facility or a Small Wireless Sole Purpose New Utility Pole in the City's Right-of-Way shall Register with the City's Public Works Department, Development Services Division in accordance with Subpart A prior to submitting an Application for review under this Part. A Communications Services Provider shall not be eligible to obtain a Permit under this Part until such Communications Services Provider has Registered.
(b) Compliance with Subpart A. It is intended that all requirements, conditions and other terms identified in Subpart A to this Part are applicable to registrations and applications for any Collocated Small Wireless Facility or Small Wireless Sole Purpose New Utility Pole proposed to be located in the City's Right-of-Way. All requirements contained in this Subpart should be read as additional requirements to those identified in Subpart A unless requirements in this Subpart are in conflict or context clearly indicates otherwise. In such cases, the requirements in this Subpart shall control.
(c) Undergrounding.
(1) New Small Wireless Facilities. In an area where City has required all public utility lines in the City Right-of-Way to be placed underground, a Communications Service Provider must comply with written, objective, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory requirements that prohibit new Utility Poles used to support Small Wireless Facilities if:
(i) City, at least 90 days prior to the submission of an Application, has required all public utility lines to be placed underground;
(ii) Structures that City allows to remain above ground are reasonably available to Communications Service Providers for the Collocation of Small Wireless Facilities and may be replaced by a Communications Service Provider to accommodate the Collocation of Small Wireless Facilities; and
(iii) A Communications Service Providers may install a new Utility Pole in the designated area in the City Right-of-Way that otherwise complies with this subsection and it is not reasonably able to provide Wireless Services by Collocating on a remaining Utility Pole or other structure in the City Right-of-Way.
(2) Pre-existing Small Wireless Facilities. For Small Wireless Facilities installed before City adopts requirements that public utility lines be placed underground, City must:
(i) Allow a Communications Service Provider to maintain the Small Wireless Facilities in place subject to any applicable pole attachment agreement with the pole owner; or
(ii) Allow the Communications Service Provider to replace the associated pole within 50 feet of the prior location in accordance with Subpart E.
(Ord. 2017-863-E, § 4; Ord. 2019-770-E, § 8; Ord. 2025-30-E, § 22)
Source: City of Jacksonville, Ordinance Code and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/jacksonville/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITXXIPUWOUT_CH711CIRI-W_PT4COFARI-W_SPCGEPECOCOSMWIFASMWISOPUNEUTPO_S711.427REPEPLMACOCOFARI-WASCOSMWIFASMWISOPUNEUTPOFetched: 10/27/2026