Louisiana: Has among the strongest prohibitions that were made stronger after Lafayette launched LUS Fiber.
Municipalities must hold a referendum and are required to “impute” (or invent) additional costs that would apply to a private provider if it were offering services.
This requirement invites endless litigation as there are no agreed-upon standards for what these fees could be.
A community that somehow surmounts these obstacles would then lose the ability to charge franchise fees and similar obligations to other operators in the community – though those fees are usually owed to the public as compensation for using the community rights-of-way for poles, conduits, etc.