For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATOR. The City Administrator.
COMPANY. A natural or corporate person, business association or other business entity including partnerships and sole proprietorships, political subdivision, public or private agency of any kind, its successors and assigns, who or which seeks to or is required to construct, install, operate, repair, maintain, remove or relocate facilities in the city.
FACILITIES. Communications lines or equipment of any kind, including but not limited to, lines or equipment for the transmission of audio, video or data or other similar communications services, not otherwise governed by M.S. Ch. 238, as it may be amended from time to time, including all trunks, lines, cables, wires, optical fibers or other fiber optic cables, laser equipment, circuits, physical connections, switching equipment, wireless communication equipment of all kinds, towers and any necessary appurtenances owned, leased or operated by a company on, over, in, under, across or along any public ground.
PUBLIC GROUND. Highways, roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, skyways, public ways, utility easements and public easements in the city, parks, parking lots, cemeteries and trails.
(Prior Code, § 20-31) (Res. 1995-9, passed 10-17-1995)