SB111,1295,8 a. Materials.

SB111,1295,9 b. Wires.

SB111,1295,11 c. Cables, including fiber optic and copper cables regardless of whether the cables are dark or lit and whether the cables are in use or dormant.

SB111,1295,12 d. Conduits.

SB111,1295,13 e. Antennas.

SB111,1295,14 f. Equipment.

SB111,1295,15 g. Fixtures.

SB111,1295,16 h. Switching multiplexers.

SB111,1295,17 i. Poles.

SB111,1295,18 j. Routers.

SB111,1295,19 k. Switches.

SB111,1295,20 L. Servers.

SB111,1295,21 m. Appurtenances.

SB111,1295,22 n. Facilities.

SB111,1295,23 o. Ancillary or auxiliary equipment.

SB111,1295,25 2. “Broadband infrastructure” does not include new poles or new towers that are used exclusively for providing broadband services.

SB111,1296,1 (b) “Electric provider” means any of the following:

SB111,1296,3 1. A public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 (5), that generates, transmits, or distributes electric energy at wholesale or retail.

SB111,1296,6 2. A cooperative association incorporated under ch. 185 to do business in this state that carries on the business of generating, transmitting, or distributing electric energy to its members at wholesale or retail.

SB111,1296,8 (2) (a) 1. An electric provider may use an easement that it holds for any of the following purposes:

SB111,1296,11 a. Installing or maintaining broadband infrastructure to provide broadband services or allowing a supplier of broadband services to install or maintain broadband infrastructure to provide broadband services.

SB111,1296,13 b. Leasing or providing to a supplier of broadband services any excess capacity in the electric provider's broadband infrastructure.

SB111,1296,16 2. This paragraph does not exempt, except, or exclude an electric provider or supplier of broadband services from complying with any provision of state or federal law applicable to siting broadband infrastructure or providing broadband services.

SB111,1296,19 (b) Except as provided in par. (c) 1., terms or conditions of an easement held by an electric provider that inhibit the electric provider from using the easement for a purpose under par. (a) do not apply.

SB111,1296,21 (c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to an easement that does any of the following:

SB111,1296,23 1. Expressly prohibits, by its terms, using the easement for a purpose under par. (a).

SB111,1296,24 2. Applies to property owned by the state or a city, village, town, or county.

SB111,1297,2 (3) (a) In this subsection, “owner” means a person who owns a fee simple or life estate interest in land or who is a land contract vendee.

SB111,1297,7 (b) At least 30 days before first using an easement for a purpose under sub. (2) (a), an electric provider shall make a reasonable attempt to mail a notice to the owner of the property subject to the easement, as determined from records of the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the property subject to the easement is located, by mailing a notice to at least one of the following: