The following terms as used in this legislation shall have the following meanings unless otherwise herein provided or unless the context or use indicates another or different meaning or intent. Such definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of any of the items herein defined.
(a) "Co-location" means the use of a telecommunications facility by more than one telecommunications provider.
(b) "Technically feasible" means the location of a Telecommunication Antenna(s) reasonably serves the purpose for which it is intended within the band width of frequencies for which the owner or operator of the Antenna(s) has been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate without a significant loss of communication capability within developed areas of the City.
(c) "Telecommunications" means the exchange of information through the transmission of voice, video, or data signals by means of electronic or electromagnetic systems including but not limited to television, radio, cellular, computer transmission, cable TV and similar transmissions.
(d) "Telecommunications antenna" means the exterior physical device designed to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic signals authorized by the FCC in furtherance of telecommunications. Antennae used by amateur radio operators are not telecommunications antennae for purposes of this legislation.
(e) "Telecommunications attachment" means a structure designed primarily to support telecommunications antennae, which is not self-supporting, but rather is attached to a building or other structure (other than a residence) such as (but not limited to) a church steeple, clock or bell tower, smoke stack, government building, agricultural building, utility building, apartment building, or water tower.
(f) "Telecommunications equipment shelter" means an unmanned building, structure or casing that is used to house telecommunications facilities such as reception, relay and transmission equipment.
(g) "Telecommunications facility" means any structure, tower, antenna, pole, node, wire, cable, line, wave guide, device, equipment. or any other physical object, and all appurtenances thereto, used to connect electrical or electromagnetic signals used in telecommunications, except as such facilities have been preempted from regulation by applicable law. Amateur radio operators' equipment is not included within this definition.
(h) "Telecommunications provider" means a person or entity engaged in the business of providing telecommunications services to consumers, or a governmental entity, such as a police, fire, or ambulance department, that employs telecommunications facilities in its telecommunications network.
(i) "Telecommunications tower" means a free-standing structure designed primarily to support telecommunications antennae.
(Ord. 196-1998. Passed 9-14-98.)