For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICABLE STANDARDS. All applicable engineering and safety standards governing the installation, maintenance, and operation of facilities and the performance of all work in or around electric utility facilities and includes the most current versions of National Electric Safety Code (NESC), the National Electrical Code (NEC), and the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), each of which is incorporated by reference in this subchapter, and/or other reasonable safety and engineering requirements of utility or other federal, state, or local authority with jurisdiction over utility facilities.
ATTACHMENT(S). A licensee’s commun- ications facilities that are placed directly on utility’s poles, are overlashed onto an existing attachment, or are placed within utility’s conduit system, but does not include either a riser or a service drop attached to a single pole where licensee has an existing attachment on such pole.
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. Wireline or wireless facilities, including but not limited to, fiber optic, copper, and/or coaxial cables, wireless antennas, receivers or transceivers, including any and all associated equipment, utilized to provide communications service.
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. The transmission or receipt of voice, video, data, broadband internet, or other forms of digital or analog signals over communications facilities.
CONDUIT SYSTEM. Utility’s conduits, innerduct, manholes, hand holes, vaults, pull-boxes and trenches.
EXCAVATION AND CONSTRUCTION. Installation, repair, and replacement of driveways, curbs, and sidewalks; the installation, repair, and replacement of all public utilities and other utilities, and other projects involving construction activities over, upon, or beneath public streets within the municipal limits.
POLE. Any pole owned or controlled by utility that is used for the distribution of electricity and/or communications service and is capable of supporting attachments for communications facilities.
PUBLIC STREETS. All public streets and public rights-of-way within the town limits.
STREET CURB CUT WORK. Work done to or through the actual street surface or curb and gutter section.
UTILITY. All personal property and real property owned or controlled by the municipal electric utility, including poles, conduit system, and related facilities, by and through the Town Council and Town Manager.
(Ord. 2019-07, passed 7-2-2019)