As used in this chapter and unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the words and terms listed shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. Any term not defined in this section shall have the meaning ascribed to it in 92 Ill. Adm. Code section 530.30, unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
AASHTO: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
ANSI: American National Standards Institute.
ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials.
ALTERNATIVE ANTENNA STRUCTURE: Any existing pole or other structure within the public right-of-way that can be used to support an antenna and is not a utility pole or Township-owned infrastructure.
ANTENNA: Any equipment, device, or similar item designed for transmitting signals to a receiving station or for receiving television, radio, data, or other signals from satellites or other sources.
APPLICANT: A person applying for a permit under this chapter.
BACKFILL: The methods or materials for replacing excavated material in a trench or pit.
BORE OR BORING: To excavate an underground cylindrical cavity for the insertion of a pipe or electrical conductor.
CABLE OPERATOR: That term as defined in 47 USC 522(5).
CABLE SERVICE: That term as defined in 47 USC 522(6).
CABLE SYSTEM: That term as defined in 47 USC 522(7).
CARRIER PIPE: The pipe enclosing the liquid, gas or slurry to be transported.
CASING: A structural protective enclosure for transmittal devices such as: carrier pipes, electrical conductors, and fiber optic devices.
CLEAR ZONE: The total roadside border area, starting at the edge of the pavement, available for safe use by errant vehicles. This area may consist of a shoulder, a recoverable slope, a non- recoverable slope, and a clear run-out area. The desired width is dependent upon the traffic volumes and speeds, and on the roadside geometry. Distances are specified in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide.
COATING: Protective wrapping or mastic cover applied to buried pipe for protection against external corrosion.
CODE: The Town Code of Leyden Township and ordinances enacted by Leyden Township.
CONDUCTOR: Wire carrying electrical current.
CONDUIT: A casing or encasement for wires or cables.
CONSTRUCTION OR CONSTRUCT: The installation, repair, maintenance, placement, alteration, enlargement, demolition, modification or abandonment in place of facilities.
COVER: The depth of earth or backfill over buried utility pipe or conductor.
CROSSING FACILITY: A facility that crosses one or more right-of- way lines of a right-of-way.
DISRUPT THE RIGHT-OF-WAY: For the purposes of this chapter, any work that obstructs the right-of-way or causes an adverse effect on the ability of persons, other companies with facilities in the right-of-way, or vehicles to use the right-of-way for its intended use or which may damage, destroy or injure vegetation in the right-of-way. Such work shall include, without limitation, the following: excavating or other cutting; placement (whether temporary or permanent) of materials, equipment, devices, or structures; damage to vegetation; and compaction or loosening of the soil, but shall not include the parking of vehicles or equipment in a manner that does not materially obstruct the flow of traffic on a road.
EMERGENCY: Any immediate maintenance to the facility required for the safety of the public using or in the vicinity of the right- of-way or immediate maintenance required for the health and safety of the general public served by the utility.
ENCASEMENT: Provision of a protective casing.
ENGINEER: The Township Engineer or designee.
EQUIPMENT: Materials, tools, implements, supplies, and/or other items used to facilitate construction of facilities.
EXCAVATION: The making of a hole or cavity by removing material, or laying bare by digging.
EXTRA HEAVY PIPE: Pipe meeting ASTM standards for this pipe designation.
FACILITY: All structures, devices, objects, and materials including, but not limited to, track and rails, wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, communications and video cables and wires, poles, conduits, grates, covers, pipes, cables, vaults, boxes, cabinets and other equipment enclosures, power pedestals and appurtenances thereto located on, over, above, along, upon, under, across, or within rights-of-way under this chapter, but excepting therefrom all structures, devices, objects or materials owned by the Township.
FREESTANDING FACILITY: A facility that is not a crossing facility or a parallel facility, such as, but not limited to, vaults, boxes, cabinets, equipment enclosures, antennas, transformers, pumps, or meter stations.
FRONTAGE ROAD: Roadway, usually parallel, providing access to land adjacent to the highway where access to the land is precluded by control of access on the highway.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Any substance or material which, due to its quantity, form, concentration, location, or other characteristics, is determined by the Highway Commissioner or the Township Engineer to pose an unreasonable and imminent risk to the life, health or safety of persons or property or to the ecological balance of the environment, including, but not limited to explosives, radioactive materials, petroleum or petroleum products or gases, poisons, etiology (biological) agents, flammables, corrosives or any substance determined to be hazardous or toxic under any Federal or State law, statute or regulation.
HIGHWAY: A specific type of right-of-way used for vehicular traffic including rural or urban roads or streets. "Highway" includes all highway land and improvements, including roadways, ditches and embankments, bridges, drainage structures, signs, guardrails, protective structures and appurtenances necessary or convenient for vehicular traffic.
HIGHWAY CODE: The Illinois Highway Code, 605 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/1-101 et seq., as amended from time to time.
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER: The Highway Commissioner of Leyden Township or designee.
HOLDER: A person or entity that has received authorization to offer or provide cable or video service from the Illinois Commerce Commission (the "ICC") pursuant to the Illinois Cable and Video Competition Law, 220 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/21-401.
ICC: Illinois Commerce Commission.
IDOT: Illinois Department of Transportation.
JULIE: The Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators Utility Notification Program.
JACKING: Pushing a pipe horizontally under a roadway by mechanical means with or without boring.
JETTING: Pushing a pipe through the earth using water under pressure to create a cavity ahead of the pipe.
JOINT USE: The use of pole lines, trenches or other facilities by two (2) or more utilities.
MAJOR INTERSECTION: The intersection of two (2) or more major arterial roads.
OCCUPANCY: The presence of facilities on, over or under right-of- way.
PARALLEL FACILITY: A facility that is generally parallel or longitudinal to the centerline of a right-of-way.
PARKWAY: Any portion of the right-of-way not improved by street or sidewalk.
PAVEMENT CUT: The removal of an area of pavement for access to facility or for the construction of a facility.
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PIPELINES: Pipelines carrying crude or refined liquid petroleum products including, but not limited to, gasoline, distillates, propane, butane, or coal-slurry.
PRACTICABLE: That which is performable, feasible or possible, rather than that which is simply convenient.
PRESSURE: The internal force acting radically against the walls of a carrier pipe expressed in pounds per square inch gauge (psig).
PROMPT: That which is done within a period of time specified by the Township. If no time period is specified, the period shall be thirty (30) days.
PUBLIC ENTITY: A legal entity that constitutes or is part of the government, whether at local, State or Federal level.
RESTORATION: The repair of a right-of-way, highway, roadway, or other area disrupted by the construction of a facility.
RIGHT-OF-WAY: Any street, alley, other land or waterway, dedicated or commonly used for roadway or utility purposes, including utility easements in which the Township has the right and authority to authorize, regulate or permit the location of facilities other than those of the Township. "Right-of-way" shall not include any real or personal Township property that is not specifically described in the previous sentence and shall not include Township buildings, fixtures, and other structures or improvements, regardless of whether they are situated in the right-of-way.
ROADWAY: That part of the right-of-way that includes the pavement and shoulders.
SALE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AT RETAIL: The transmitting, supplying, or furnishing of telecommunications and all services rendered in connection therewith for a consideration, other than between a parent corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries or between wholly owned subsidiaries, when the gross charge made by one such corporation to another such corporation is not greater than the gross charge paid to the retailer for their use or consumption and not for sale.
SECURITY FUND: That amount of security required pursuant to section 4-6-10 of this chapter.
SHOULDER: A width of roadway, adjacent to the pavement, providing lateral support to the pavement edge and providing an area for emergency vehicular stops and storage of snow removed from the pavement.
SOUND ENGINEERING JUDGMENT: A decision(s) consistent with generally accepted engineering principles, practices and experience.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: This term includes, but is not limited to, messages or information transmitted through use of local, toll, and wide area telephone service, channel services, telegraph services, teletypewriter service, computer exchange service, private line services, specialized mobile radio services, cellular mobile telecommunications services, stationary two-way radio service, paging service or any other form of commercial mobile or portable one-way or two-way communications, and any other transmission of messages or information by electronic or similar means, between or among points of wire, cable, fiber optics, laser, microwave, radio, satellite, or similar facilities. For purposes of this definition, “private line” means a dedicated non-traffic sensitive service for a single customer to exclusive or priority use of a communications channel, or a group of such channels, from one or more specified locations to one or more other specified locations. “Telecommunications” shall not include value added services in which computer processing applications are used to act on the form, content, code, and protocol of the information for purposes other than transmission. “Telecommunications” shall not include purchase of telecommunications by a telecommunications service provider for use as a component part of the service provided to the ultimate retail consumer who originates or terminates the end-to-end communications. “Telecommunications” shall not include the provision of cable services through a cable system as defined in the Cable Communications Act of 1984 (47 USC sections 521 and following) as now or hereafter amended or cable or other programming services subject to an open video system fee payable to the Township through an open video system as defined in the Rules of the Federal Communications Commission (47 CDF 76.1550 and following) as now or hereafter amended.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER: Means any person that installs, owns, operates or controls facilities in the public right-of-way used or designed to be used to transmit telecommunications in any form.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS RETAILER: Means and includes every person engaged in making sales of telecommunications at retail as defined herein.
TOWNSHIP: Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois.
TOWNSHIP-OWNED INFRASTRUCTURE: Infrastructure in the public right-of-way within the Township that is owned, operated or maintained by the Township, including, without limitation, streetlights, traffic signals, towers, structures or buildings.
TOWNSHIP'S DESIGN MANUAL: Leyden Township's construction specifications and requirements embodied in a booklet or manual.
TRENCH: A relatively narrow open excavation for the installation of an underground facility.
UTILITY: The individual or entity owning or operating any facility as defined in this chapter.
VENT: A pipe to allow the dissipation into the atmosphere of gases or vapors from an underground casing.
VIDEO SERVICE: That term as defined in section 21-201(v) of the Illinois Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007, 220 Illinois Compiled Statutes 21-201(v).
WATER LINES: Pipelines carrying raw or potable water.
WET BORING: Boring using water under pressure at the cutting auger to soften the earth and to provide a sluice for the excavated material. (Ord. SWO-2018-6, 8-14-2018; amd. Ord. TO-2022-13, 9-13-2022)