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Attorneys for Maple Heights argued that nothing in the 2007 law requires a video service provider to own or physically access wireline facilities in public rights-of-way to be subject to video service provider fees.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022

There are hundreds of encampments on or near Metro-owned property, facilities, and rights-of-way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2022

The resolution states that "the presence of homeless encampments, illegal dumping, graffiti and overgrown weeds and vegetation on Union Pacific’s rights-of-way is a public nuisance and in need of abatement."

From Fox News • Jan. 14, 2022

But not if, when starry-eyed technologists come to face the reality of regulations, rights-of-way, and economics, they find something to like in the way things have always been done.

From Slate • May 31, 2019

The irony of this all-out chemical assault on roadsides and utility rights-of-way is twofold.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson