65-407-880 Me. Code R. § 7
Attaching entities may enter agreements which establish joint responsibility for joint-use utility poles in their common service territories and which may eliminate or reduce the need for the payment of direct compensation. Joint responsibility may include the joint ownership of joint-use utility poles, sole ownership of joint-use utility poles in an agreed proportion, compensation or any combination thereof, provided that the net effect of the agreement assigns responsibility for joint-use utility pole costs in amounts generally consistent with this Chapter. In determining whether an existing agreement is generally consistent with this Chapter, the parties may take into account the burden of litigating a rate or charges before the Commission and the overall net effect of any reasonably likely change on their respective ratepayers or customers.
65-407 C.M.R. ch. 880, § 7