N.J. Admin. Code § 14:18-12.3 - Requirements for plant rearrangement verification
(a) Applicants for
a certificate of approval for an additional cable television franchise shall
submit verifiable cost estimates of projected aerial utility and cable
television plant rearrangement needed (make-ready work) to permit the
attachment of the proposed cable television system.
(b) The estimates shall be compiled by one of
the following methods:
1. A field survey
conducted by the applicant of all utility poles on which the applicant may
attach in the proposed service area;
2. A field survey conducted by the applicant
of at least 10 percent of the poles on which the applicant may attach using a
statistical random sampling method and extrapolation process. The sample shall
include the full range of all make-ready work categories which the applicant
can reasonably expect to encounter in the proposed service area; or
3. A field survey conducted at the
applicant's cost by the pole-owning utility or other such utility that owns or
controls those portions of the poles to which the applicant proposes to
attach.
(c) Any survey
shall be submitted in a form permitting verification by the pole owning
utility, the Office or an independent party with experience in conducting
utility make-ready surveys. All surveys shall contain the underlying facts and
assumptions determining the cost estimate and a description of the process for
conducting the survey.
Notes
See: 22 New Jersey Register 2897(a), 23 New Jersey Register 619(a).
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