ANTENNA: | Communications equipment that transmits and/or receives radio frequency signals used in the provision of wireless services. This definition does not apply to broadcast antennas, antennas designed for amateur radio use or satellite dishes for residential or household purposes. |
ANTENNA ARRAY: | A single or group of antenna elements and associated mounting hardware, transmission lines, remote radio units, or other appurtenances which share a common attachment device such as a mounting frame, for the sole purpose of transmitting or receiving wireless communication signals. |
APPLICABLE CODES: | Uniform Building, Fire, Safety, Electrical, Plumbing or Mechanical Codes adopted by a recognized national code organization to the extent such codes have been adopted by the Town, including any amendments. |
APPLICANT: | Any person who submits an application under this chapter. |
APPLICATION: | A written request, on a form provided by the Town, for a permit. |
COLLOCATION: | The mounting or installation of equipment on an existing tower, building or structure for the purpose of transmitting or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes. |
DECORATIVE POLE: | A pole that is specially designed and placed for aesthetic purposes. |
DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM: | A network consisting of transceiver equipment at a central hub site to support multiple antenna locations throughout the desired coverage area. |
ELIGIBLE FACILITIES REQUEST: | As defined in federal regulations. |
FAA: | The Federal Aviation Administration. |
FCC: | The Federal Communications Commission. |
GOVERNING BODY: | The group of elected officials which can make decisions on behalf of the Town (for example, the Town Council). |
LAWS: | Collectively, any and all federal, state, or local law, statute, common law, code, rule, regulation, order, or ordinance. |
MACROCELL: | An antenna or antennas mounted on a tower, ground-based mast, rooftops or structures, at a height that provides coverage to the surrounding area. |
ORDINARY MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR: | Inspections, testing or repair that maintain functional capacity, aesthetic and structural integrity of a wireless communication facility and the associated structure, pole or tower, and that does not involve impeding, damaging or disturbing any portion of the public right-of-way. |
PERMIT: | A written authorization (in electronic or hard copy format) to install, at a specified location in the public right-of-way, a wireless communication facility. |
PERMITTEE: | An applicant that has received a permit under this chapter. |
PERSON: | An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization. |
POLE: | A legally constructed pole, such as a utility, lighting or similar pole made of wood, concrete, metal or other material, located or to be located within the public right-of-way. |
PROVIDER: | A wireless services provider or wireless infrastructure provider and includes any person that owns or operates wireless communication facilities within the public rights-of-way. |
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY: | The area on, below, or above property that has been designated for use as or is used for a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or similar purpose, and for purposes of this chapter shall include public utility easements, but only to the extent the Town has the authority to permit use of the public utility easement for wireless communication facilities. |
PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT: | Unless otherwise specified or restricted by the terms of the easement, the area on, below, or above a property in which the property owner has dedicated an easement for use by utilities. PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT does not include an easement dedicated solely for Town use, or where the proposed use by the provider is inconsistent with the terms of any easement granted to the Town. |
REPLACES or REPLACEMENT: | In connection with wireless communication facilities and a corresponding pole, structure or tower, to replace (or the replacement of) the same with something that is substantially similar in design, size, color and scale to the existing facilities or structure and in conformance with this chapter and any other applicable Town regulations. |
SMALL WIRELESS FACILITIES: | A. Encompasses facilities that meet the following conditions: 1. The facilities: a. Are mounted on structures fifty (50') feet or less in height including their antennas; or b. Are mounted on structures no more than ten percent (10%) taller than other adjacent structures; or c. Do not extend existing structures on which they are located to a height of more than fifty (50') feet or by more than ten percent (10%), whichever is greater; 2. Each antenna associated with the deployment, excluding associated antenna equipment, is no more than three (3) cubic feet in volume; 3. All other wireless equipment associated with the structure, including the wireless equipment associated with the antenna and any pre-existing associated equipment on the structure, is no more than twenty eight (28) cubic feet in volume; 4. The facilities do not require antenna structure registration under federal law; 5. The facilities are not located on tribal land as defined under federal law; and 6. The facilities do not result in human exposure to radio frequency radiation in excess of the applicable safety standards specified under federal law. B. The following types of associated ancillary equipment are not included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation box, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services. |
STATE: | The State of Wyoming. |
STEALTH: | A design that minimizes the visual impact of wireless communication facilities by camouflaging, disguising, screening or blending them into the surrounding environment. Examples of STEALTH design include, but are not limited to, facilities disguised as trees (monopines), flagpoles, utility and light poles, bell towers, clock towers, ball field lights and architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas or flush-mounted antennas that are either painted to match or enclosed in an architecturally, applicable box. |
SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE: | As defined in federal regulations. |
TOWER: | Any structure in the public right-of-way built for the sole or primary purpose of supporting a wireless communication facility. |
TOWER HEIGHT: | The vertical distance measured from the base of the tower structure at grade to the highest point of the structure including the antenna. A lightning rod, not to exceed ten (10') feet in height, shall not be included within tower height. |
TOWN: | The Town of Guernsey, Wyoming. |
TOWN COUNCIL REVIEW: | Review of an application by the Town relating to the issuance of a permit to determine whether the issuance of a permit is in conformity with the applicable provisions of this chapter. |
TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT: | Equipment that facilitates transmission for any FCC-licensed or authorized wireless communication service, including, but not limited to, radio transceivers, antennas, microwave dishes, coaxial or fiber-optic cable and backup power supplies. The term includes equipment associated with wireless communication services including, but not limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul. |
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITY or WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITIES: | Collectively, the equipment at a fixed location or locations within the public right-of-way that enables wireless communication services, including for example: radio transceivers, support structures, poles, antennas, coaxial, fiber-optic or other cabling, power supplies (including battery backup), and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration and small wireless facilities and distributed antenna systems. |
WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDER: | A person, other than a wireless services provider, that builds or installs towers, wireless transmission equipment, wireless facilities poles or wireless support structures. |
WIRELESS SERVICES: | Any wireless services using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided to the public. |
WIRELESS SERVICES PROVIDER: | A person who provides wireless services. (Ord. 2019-002, 5-7-2019) |