(A) General Use of Terms.
(2) When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense also include the future tense; words in the plural number include the singular number; and words in the singular number include the plural number.
(3) All terms used in the definition of any other term shall have their meaning as otherwise defined in this section.
(4) The words "shall" and "will" are mandatory and "may" is permissive.
(5) Words not defined shall be given their common and ordinary meaning.
(B) Defined Terms.
(1) Abandoned means Small Cell Facilities or Wireless Support Structures that are unused for a period of three hundred sixty-five days without the owner or operator otherwise notifying the City and receiving the City's approval.
(2) Accessory Equipment means any equipment used in conjunction with a Wireless Facility or Wireless Support Structure. "Accessory Equipment" includes utility or transmission equipment, power storage, generation or control equipment, cables, wiring, and equipment cabinets.
(3) Affiliate, when used in relation to any person, means another person who owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, such person.
(4) Agent means a person that provides the City written authorization to work on behalf of a public utility.
(5) Antennae means a system of electrical conductors that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves or radio frequency signals. Such waves shall include, but not be limited to, radio, television, cellular, paging, personal telecommunications service, internet, and microwave telecommunications.
(6) Applicant means any person that submits an application to the City to site, install, construct, collocate, modify, and/or operate a small cell facility or wireless support structure in the right-of-way according to the requirements of this chapter.
(7) Cable Operator means any person or group of persons:
(a) who provides cable service over a cable system and directly or through one or more affiliates owns a significant interest in such cable system, or
(b) who otherwise controls or is responsible for, through any arrangement, the management and operation of such a cable system;
(8) Cable Franchise means an initial authorization, or renewal thereof (including a renewal of an authorization which has been granted subject to 47 U.S.C. 522 Section 546), issued by a franchising authority, whether such authorization is designated as a franchise, permit, license, resolution, contract, certificate, agreement, or otherwise, which authorizes the construction or operation of a cable system.
(9) Cable Service means
(a) The one-way transmission to subscribers of
(i) video programming, or
(ii) other programming service; and
(b) Subscriber interaction, if any, which is required for the selection of such video programming or other programming service.
(10) City Property means and includes all real property owned by the City, other than Public Streets and public easements, and all property held in a proprietary capacity by the City, which are not subject to Public Right-of-Way consent and requirements of this Supplemental Chapter.
(11) Clear Zone means the unobstructed, traversable area provided beyond the edge of the through traveled way for the recovery of errant vehicles. The clear zone includes shoulders, bike lanes, and auxiliary lanes, except those auxiliary lanes that function like through lanes. As defined in the ODOT Location and Design Manual, Volume 1, Section 600-Roadside Design.
(12) Collocation or Collocate means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace small cell facilities on an existing publicly-owned wireless support structure.
(13) Construct, Constructing, Construction, Etc., means installing, repairing, replacing or removing any Facility, regardless of the methods employed.
(14) Decorative Pole means a pole, arch, or structure other than a street light pole placed in the public way specifically designed and placed for aesthetic purposes and on which no appurtenances or attachments have been placed except for any of the following:
(a) Electric lighting;
(b) Specially designed informational or directional signage;
(c) Temporary holiday or special event attachments.
(15) Design Guidelines means administrative rules and regulations and specifications consistent with all applicable Federal and State laws, for the design, siting, landscaping and related techniques, construction, installation, collocation, modification, relocation, operation and removal for Small Cell Facilities and Wireless Support Structures in the City's Right-of-Way, so as to blend these facilities into their environment to preserve the character and aesthetics of the area.
(16) Districts, Preferred, Prohibited or Conditional means the areas of the City identified in Illustration "A" contained in the Design Guidelines, where Small Cell Facilities and Wireless Support Structures are preferred, prohibited, or conditional placement.
(17) Eligible Facilities Request means the same as defined by the FCC in 47 U.S.C. 1455 (a)(2), as may be amended, which defines that term as any request for modification of an existing support structure that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such support structure, involving:
(a) Collocation of new small cell facilities;
(b) Removal of small cell facilities; or
(c) Replacement of small cell facilities.
(18) Excavate, Excavating or Excavation means cutting, sawing, breaking, drilling into, boring under, or otherwise altering any Public Street or sidewalk pavement, and/or digging, drilling into or boring under any unpaved portion of the Public Right-of-Way, including any other work or activity which disturbs the existing surface or subsurface structure, composition, or soil compaction, for the purpose of carrying on any Construction activity.
(19) FCC means the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and any legally appointed, designated, or elected agent or successor.
(20) Micro Wireless Facility means a small cell facility that is not more than twenty-four inches in length, fifteen inches in width, and twelve inches in height and that does not have an exterior antenna more than eleven inches in length suspended on cable strung between wireless support structures.
(21) Occupy or Use with respect to the right-of-way, means to place a tangible thing in the right-of-way for any purpose, including, but not limited to, constructing, repairing, positioning, maintaining, or operating lines, poles, pipes, conduits, ducts, equipment, or other structures, appurtenances, or facilities necessary for the delivery of public utility services or any services provided by a cable operator.
(22) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or other legal entity, private or public, whether for profit or not-for-profit.
(23) Public Utility or Utility means a facilities-based provider of wireless service to one or more end users in this state, or any company described in section 4905.03 of the Ohio Revised Code and as further defined in section 4905.02 of the Ohio Revised Code, including but not limited to the following types of companies: telephone, electric light, gas, natural gas, pipe-lines, waterworks, and sewage disposal systems.
(23) Reconstruct, Reconstruction, Etc. means substantial physical change to all or a portion of an existing Facility or System involving Construction in public streets, utility easements, or Public Right-of-Way.
(24) Right-of-Way means the surface of and the space above and below the paved or unpaved portions of any public street, public road, public highway, public freeway, public lane, public path, public bikepath, public way, public alley, public court, public sidewalk, public boulevard, public parkway, public drive and any other land dedicated or otherwise designated for the same now or hereafter held by the City which shall, within its proper use and meaning in the sole opinion of the Mayor or his or her Designee, entitle a permittee, in accordance with the terms hereof and of any right-of-way permit, to the use thereof for the purpose of installing or operating any poles, wires, cables, transformers, conductors, ducts, lines, mains, conduits, vaults, manholes, amplifiers, appliances, attachments or other property or facilities as may be ordinarily necessary and pertinent to the provision of utility, cable television, communications or other services as set forth in any service agreement or any right-of-way permit. Right-of-Way shall not include private easements or public property, except to the extent the use or occupation of public property is specifically granted in a right-of-way permit or by administrative regulation.
(25) Right-of-Way Permit, Non-Residential means a permit issued by the City as required by Section 1032.14 that must be obtained in order to perform any work in, on, above, within, over, below, under, or through any part of the public right-of-way, including, but not limited to, the act or process of digging, boring, tunneling, trenching, excavating, obstructing, or installing, as well as the act of opening and cutting into the surface of any paved, improved, or unimproved surface that is part of the right-of-way.
(26) Right-of-Way Occupancy Fee means a fee levied to recover the costs incurred by the City and associated with the occupancy or use of right-of-way.
(27) Right-of-Way Permit, Small Cell means a small cell facility or wireless support structure right-of-way occupancy permit as further defined in these definitions.
(28) Routine Maintenance means repair, upkeep, replacement or restoration of existing Facilities located in the Public Right-of-Way that requires no more than one (1) working day to complete, is not an Emergency and does not include Excavation of the Public Right-of-Way.
(29) Service Provider means any Public Service Provider and/or Private Service Provider.
(30) Small Cell Facility means a wireless facility that meets both of the following requirements:
(a) Each antenna is located inside an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume.
(b) All other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively not more than twenty-eight cubic feet in volume. The calculation of equipment volume shall not include electric meters, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation boxes, grounding equipment, power transfer switches, cut-off switches, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services.
(31) Small Cell Facility Operator or Operator or Owner means a wireless service provider, or its documented designated agent, or cable operator or its documented designated agent, or a video service provider, or its documented designated agent, that operates a small cell facility and provides wireless service as defined herein. For the purpose of this chapter, "operator" includes a wireless service provider, cable operator, or a video service provider that provides information services as defined in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 59, 47 U.S.C. 153(20), and services that are fixed in nature or use unlicensed spectrum.
(32) Substantial Change or Modification means a that modification substantially changes the physical dimensions of an eligible support structure if it meets any of the following criteria:
(a) It increases the height of the structure by more than 10% or more than ten feet, whichever is greater;
(i) Changes in height should be measured from the original support structure in cases where deployments are or will be separated horizontally, such as on buildings' rooftops; in other circumstances, changes in height should be measured from the dimensions of the wireless support structure, inclusive of originally approved appurtenances and any modifications that were approved prior to the passage of the Spectrum Act.
(b) It involves adding an appurtenance to the body of the wireless support structure that would protrude from the edge of the structure by more than six feet;
(c) It involves installation of more than the standard number of new equipment cabinets for the technology involved, but not to exceed four cabinets; or, for wireless support structures in the public rights-of-way, it involves installation of any new equipment cabinets on the ground if there are no pre-existing ground cabinets associated with the structure, or else involves installation of ground cabinets that are more than 10% larger in height or overall volume than any other ground cabinets associated with the structure;
(d) It entails any excavation or deployment outside the current site;
(e) It would defeat the concealment elements of the eligible support structure; or
(f) It does not comply with conditions associated with the siting approval of the construction or modification of the eligible support structure, provided however that this limitation does not apply to any modification that is non-compliant only in a manner that would not exceed the thresholds identified in (1) through (4) of this definition.
(33) Tolling or Toll Period means the pausing or delaying of the running of a required time period.
(34) Utility Pole means a structure that is designed for, or used for the purpose of, carrying lines, cables, or wires for electric or telecommunications service. "Utility pole" excludes street signs and decorative poles.
(35) Video Service Provider means a person granted a video service authorization under sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(36) Wireless Facility means equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including all of the following:
(a) Equipment Associated with Wireless Communications: Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration, including Small Cell Facilities.
(b) The term does not include any of the following:
(i) The structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated:
(ii) Coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or utility poles or that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular antenna.
(37) Wireless Service means any services using licensed or unlicensed wireless spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided using Wireless Facilities.
(38) Wireless Support Structure means a pole, such as a monopole, either guyed or self- supporting, street light pole, traffic signal pole, a fifteen (15) foot or taller sign pole, or Utility Pole capable of supporting a Small Cell Facility. As used in this Chapter "Wireless Support Structure" excludes all of the following:
(a) A utility pole or other facility owned or operated by a municipal electric utility.
(b) A utility pole or other facility used to supply traction power to public Transit systems, including railways, trams, streetcars, and trolleybuses.
(39) Wireline Backhaul Facility means a facility used for the transport of communications service or any other electronic communications by coaxial, fiber-optic cable, or any other wire.
(Ord. 49-2018. Passed 7-24-18.)