(A) The grantee shall construct, install, operate and maintain its system in a manner consistent with all laws, ordinances, construction standards, governmental requirements, and FCC technical standards. In addition, the grantee shall provide the Municipality, upon request, a written report of the results of the grantee's annual proof of performance tests conducted pursuant to FCC standards and requirements.
(B) The following additional specifications shall apply:
(1) Construction, installation and maintenance of the cable system shall be performed in an orderly and workmanlike manner. All cables and wires shall be installed, where possible, parallel with electric and telephone lines. Multiple cable configurations shall be arranged in parallel and bundled with due respect for engineering considerations.
(2) The grantee shall at all times comply with the most recent version adopted by the Municipality of:
(a) National Electrical Safety Code (National Bureau of Standards);
(b) National Electrical Code (National Bureau of Fire Underwriters);
(c) Bell System Code of Pole Line Construction; and
(d) All other applicable FCC or other federal, state and local regulations.
(3) In any event, the system shall not endanger or interfere with the safety of persons or property in the service area or other areas where the grantee may have equipment located.
(4) Any antenna structure used in the system shall comply with construction, marking, and lighting of antenna structure as required by the United States Department of Transportation.
(5) All working facilities and conditions used during construction, installation and maintenance of the system shall comply with the standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(6) The grantee shall regularly check radio frequency leakage at reception locations for emergency radio services to prove and verify that no interference signal combinations are possible which may disrupt municipal public works, police, fire, or administrative communications, or township, county, or state communications. Stray radiation shall be measured adjacent to any proposed aeronautical navigation radio sites to prove no interference to airborne navigational reception in the normal flight patterns. All applicable FCC rules and regulations shall govern.
(7) The grantee shall maintain equipment capable of providing standby power for headend, transportation and trunk amplifiers for a minimum of four hours.
(8) All towers, antennas, satellite receive stations, cable wiring, service connections, and other exposed equipment located within the service area shall be properly grounded in accordance with the National Electrical Safety Code and the National Electrical Code as now or hereafter amended. The grantee shall also comply with any local ordinance pertaining to the establishment of electrical grounding standards, and with any additional grounding standards established by electric and telephone companies if the grantee has arranged to lease pole space from the companies. In the event that the grantee has erected wiring and related appurtenances upon poles owned by private parties other than electric or telephone companies, the grantee shall comply with provisions of the National Electrical Code. The grantee, at its discretion, may properly ground the equipment in such a manner that exceeds normal engineering requirements, provided, however, that such grounding is in compliance with the National Electrical Code.
(9) In all areas of the Municipality where the cables, wires and other like facilities of public utilities are placed underground, all cables, wires and other like facilities of the grantee installed after the effective date of the grantee's franchise shall be placed underground. When public utilities relocate their facilities from pole to underground, the grantee shall concurrently do so at no expense to the Municipality.
(10) Where the grantee places cabling underground as part of a relocation of cabling, or as an element of new construction or reconstruction of the cable system, the grantee shall utilize directional boring wherever possible.
(Ord. 767, passed 4-25-00)