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GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 115.001 PURPOSE.
   The purpose and intent of this chapter is to:
   (A)   Establish a local policy concerning telecommunications providers and services;
   (B)   Establish clear local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of telecommunications providers and services;
   (C)   Promote competition in telecommunications;
   (D)   Minimize unnecessary local regulation of telecommunications providers and services;
   (E)   Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions and residents of the village;
   (F)   Permit and manage reasonable access to the public ways of the village for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
   (G)   Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public ways held in public trust by the village;
   (H)   Assure that the village's current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public ways are fully paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
   (I)   Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the village and the residents of the village for permitting private use of the public ways;
   (J)   Assure that all telecommunications carriers providing facilities or services within the village comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the village;
   (K)   Assure that the village can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety and welfare;
   (L)   Enable the village to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96)
§ 115.002 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   AFFILIATE. A person that (directly or indirectly) owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with another person.
   ANNUAL GROSS REVENUE. Reserved.
   CABLE ACT. The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. § 532, et seq., as now and hereafter amended.
   CABLE OPERATOR. A telecommunications carrier providing or offering to provide CABLE SERVICE within the village as that term is defined in the Cable Act.
   CABLE SERVICE. For the purpose of this chapter shall have the same meaning provided by the Cable Act.
   CORPORATE AUTHORITIES. The President and Board of Trustees of the village.
   EXCESS CAPACITY. The volume or capacity in any existing or future duct, conduit, manhole, handhole or other utility facility within the public way that is or will be available for use for additional telecommunications facilities.
   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC). The federal administrative agency, or lawful successor, authorized to regulate and oversee telecommunications carriers, services and providers on a national level.
   ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION (ICC). The state administrative agency, or lawful successor, authorized to regulate and oversee telecommunications carriers, services and providers in the State of Illinois.
   OTHER WAYS. The highways, streets, alleys, utility easements or other rights-of-way within the village, but under the jurisdiction and control of a governmental entity other than the village.
   OVERHEAD FACILITIES. Utility poles, utility facilities and telecommunications facilities located above the surface of the ground, including the underground supports and foundations for such facilities.
   PERSON. Corporations, companies, associations, joint stock companies or associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and individuals and includes their lessors, trustees and receivers.
   PUBLIC STREET. Any highway, street, alley or other public right-of-way for motor vehicle travel under the jurisdiction and control of the village which has been acquired, established, dedicated or devoted to highway purposes not inconsistent with telecommunications facilities.
   PUBLIC WAY. All public streets and utility easements, as those terms are defined herein, now or hereafter owned by the village, but only to the extent of the village's right, title, interest or authority to grant a license or franchise to occupy and use such streets and easements for telecommunications facilities.
   STATE. The State of Illinois.
   SURPLUS SPACE. That portion of the usable space on a utility pole which has the necessary clearance from other pole users, as required by the orders and regulations of the Illinois Commerce Commission, to allow its use by a telecommunications carrier for a pole attachment.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER. Every person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, operates or manages plant, equipment or property within the village, used or to be used for the purpose of offering telecommunications service.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. The plant, equipment and property, including but not limited to, cables, wires, conduits, ducts, pedestals, antennae, electronics and other appurtenances used or to be used to transmit, receive, distribute, provide or offer telecommunications services.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER. Every person who provides telecommunications service over telecommunications facilities without any ownership or management control of the facilities.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. The providing or offering for rent, sale or lease, or in exchange for other value received, of the transmittal of voice, data, image, graphic and video programming information between or among points by wire, cable, fiber optics, laser, microwave, radio, satellite or similar facilities, with or without benefit of any closed transmission medium.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. See TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES.
   UNDERGROUND FACILITIES. Utility and telecommunications facilities located under the surface of the ground, excluding the underground foundations or supports for Overhead Facilities.
   USABLE SPACE. The total distance between the top of a utility pole and the lowest possible attachment point that provides the minimum allowable vertical clearance as specified in the orders and regulations of the Illinois Commerce Commission.
   UTILITY EASEMENT. Any easement owned by the village and acquired, established, dedicated or devoted for public utility purposes not inconsistent with telecommunications facilities.
   UTILITY FACILITIES. The plant, equipment and property, including but not limited to the poles, pipes, mains, conduits, ducts, cables, wires, plant and equipment located under, on or above the surface of the ground within the public ways of the village and used or to be used for the purpose of providing utility or telecommunications services.
   VILLAGE. The Village of Orland Hills (County of Cook, State of Illinois).
   VILLAGE PROPERTY. All real property owned by the village, other than public streets and utility easements as those terms are defined herein, and all property held in a proprietary capacity by the village, which are not subject to right-of-way licensing and franchising as provided in this chapter.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96)
§ 115.003 REGISTRATION.
   Except as otherwise provided herein, all telecommunications carriers and providers engaged in the business of transmitting, supplying or furnishing of telecommunications originating or terminating in the village shall register with the village pursuant to §§ 115.020 through 115.022.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96) Penalty, see § 115.999
§ 115.004 TELECOMMUNICATIONS LICENSE.
   Except as otherwise provided herein, any telecommunications carriers who desire to construct, install, operate, maintain, or otherwise locate telecommunications facilities in, under, over or across any public way of the village for the sole purpose of providing telecommunications service to persons and areas outside the village shall first obtain a license granting the use of such pubic ways from the village pursuant to §§ 115.030 through 115.045.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96) Penalty, see § 115.999
§ 115.005 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRANCHISE.
   Except as otherwise provided herein, any telecommunications carriers who desire to construct, install, operate, maintain or otherwise locate telecommunications facilities in, under, over or across any public way of the village, and to also provide telecommunications service to persons or areas in the village, shall first obtain a franchise granting the use of such public ways from the village pursuant to §§ 115.055 through 115.071.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96) Penalty, see § 115.999
§ 115.006 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE.
   Except as otherwise provided herein, any telecommunications carrier who desires to construct, install, operate, maintain or locate telecommunications facilities in any public way of the village for the purpose of providing cable service to persons in the village shall first obtain a cable franchise from the village as provided in §§ 115.080.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96) Penalty, see § 115.999
§ 115.007 APPLICATION TO EXISTING FRANCHISE ORDINANCES AND AGREEMENTS.
   This chapter shall have no effect on any existing franchise ordinance or franchise agreement until:
   (A)   The expiration of the franchise ordinance or agreement; or
   (B)   An amendment to an unexpired franchise ordinance or franchise agreement, unless both parties agree to defer full compliance to a specific date not later than the present expiration date.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96)
§ 115.008 OTHER REMEDIES.
   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting any judicial remedies that the village may have, at law or in equity, for enforcement of this chapter.
(Ord. 96-15, passed 4-3-96)
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