The purpose and intent of this chapter is to:
(A) Comply with the provisions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act as they apply to local governments, telecommunication carriers and the services those carriers offer;
(B) Promote competition on a competitively neutral basis in the provision of telecommunications services;
(C) Permit and manage reasonable access to the public rights-of-way of the city for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis and conserve the limited physical capacity of those public rights-of-way held in trust by the city;
(D) Assure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and the use of the public rights-of-way are fully compensated by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
(E) Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the city and its residents for permitting private use of the public right-of-way; and
(F) Assure that all telecommunications carriers providing facilities and/or services within the city register and comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city.
(Prior Code, § 111.01) (Ord. 380, passed 1-10-2000; Ord. 384, passed 2-12-2001)