(a) Subject to this subchapter, a wireless provider shall have the right, as a permitted use not subject to zoning review or approval, to collocate, maintain, modify, operate, and replace small wireless facilities and to install, maintain, modify, and replace poles it owns or manages or, with the permission of the owner, a third party's pole, associated with a small wireless facility, along, across, upon, and under the right-of-way.
(b) Small wireless facilities and associated poles shall be installed and maintained as to not obstruct or hinder the usual travel or public safety of the right-of-way or the usage of the right-of-way by utilities.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers
Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies
Subchapter 5 - Small Wireless Facility Deployment Act
§ 23-17-501. Legislative findings and intent
§ 23-17-504. Exclusive arrangements
§ 23-17-505. Use of rights-of-way by wireless provider
§ 23-17-506. Requirements — Height limits — Standards
§ 23-17-507. Damage and repair — Replacements — Abandonment — Removal
§ 23-17-508. Aesthetic standards
§ 23-17-509. Collocation on authority poles
§ 23-17-513. Arkansas Public Service Commission — Jurisdiction over pole attachments
§ 23-17-515. Dispute resolution
§ 23-17-516. Indemnification, insurance, and bonding
§ 23-17-517. Overlapping jurisdiction of management of right-of-way