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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 24. Transportation And Motor Vehicles
Agency 30. Department of Transportation
Chapter 151. Land Use Permit Regulations
11/29/2025

24VAC30-151-730. Accommodation fees.

The Commissioner of Highways or a designee shall determine the annual compensation for the use of the right-of-way by a utility, except as provided in 24VAC30-151-740. The rates shall be established on the value of the right-of-way being used to accommodate the utility facility. The rates for wireless facility installations shall be established on the following basis:

1. Small cell attachments to VDOT-owned towers and poles and placement of associated equipment shall be in accordance with § 56-484.31 of the Code of Virginia;

2. Wireless facility attachments and emplacements at VDOT-owned towers shall be negotiated in the same manner as resource sharing as set out in 24VAC30-151-740; and

3. A wireless support structure installed under a land use permit issued on or after July 1, 2018, shall have an annual use payment set in accordance with § 56-484.32 of the Code of Virginia.

Statutory Authority

§ 33.2-210 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 26, Issue 12, eff. March 17, 2010; amended, Virginia Register Volume 28, Issue 4, eff. November 23, 2011; Volume 35, Issue 4, eff. November 14, 2018; Volume 42, Issue 5, eff. November 19, 2025.

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