(a) Subject to the Ohio Revised Code and approval of an application under this Chapter, an operator may collocate a small cell facility and construct, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless support structures in, along, across, upon, and under the City right-of-way.
(1) An operator shall comply with generally applicable standards that are consistent with this Chapter and Chapter 931, and any rules, regulations, and design guidelines adopted by the City for the collocation of a small cell facilities and construction, maintenance, modification, operation, or replacement of wireless support structures in, along, across, upon, and under the City right-of-way, unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law.
(2) All wireless support structures and small cell facilities shall be constructed and maintained so as not to impede or impair public safety or the legal use of the right-of-way by the City, the traveling public, or other public utilities.
(b) The permitting procedures and authorizations set forth herein in this Chapter shall apply only to small cell facilities and wireless support structures in the right-of-way, and do not authorize the construction and operation of a wireline backhaul facility, which continues to be governed by Chapter 931 of the Code.
(c) Relationship to Other Chapters. This chapter shall supersede all conflicting requirements of other titles and chapters of this Code regarding the locating and permitting of small cell facilities and wireless support structures in the right-of-way. The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to placement of other facilities or systems in the right-of-way, or to the construction, modification, collocation, or removal of small cell facilities, wireless support structures, towers, base stations, or other wireless telecommunications facilities outside the public right-of-way.
(d) Nothing in this chapter precludes the City from applying its generally applicable health, safety, and welfare regulations when granting consent for a small cell facility or wireless support structure in the City right-of-way.
(Ord. 18-O-062. Passed 7-3-18.)