(a) The wireless provider shall install, maintain, repair and modify its small wireless facilities in safe condition and good repair and in compliance with the requirements and conditions of this Chapter and Chapter 1052. The wireless provider shall ensure that its employees, agents and contractors that perform work in connection with its small wireless facilities are adequately trained and skilled in accordance with all applicable industry and governmental standards and regulations. Specifically, the wireless provider shall comply with the following requirements and conditions:
(1) The wireless provider shall maintain its small wireless facilities in a manner consistent with accepted industry practice and applicable law.
(2) All safety practices required by applicable law or accepted industry practices and standards shall be used during the construction, installation, or maintenance of small wireless facilities.
(3) After the completion of any placement or maintenance of a small wireless facilities in a public right-of-way, the wireless provider shall, at its own expense, restore the public right-of-way to its original condition before such work. If the wireless provider within ten (10) days, or such longer period of time as may be agreed to between the Village and the wireless provider in writing, following completion of such placement or maintenance, the Village may perform restoration and charge the costs of the restoration against the wireless provider.
(4) The wireless provider shall use and exercise due caution, care and skill in performing work in the public right-of-way and shall take all necessary and reasonable steps to safeguard work site areas. The persons constructing, installing and maintaining small wireless facilities must be a licensed electrician, certified to work as a lineworker, or successfully complete an accredited lineworker apprenticeship program.
(5) A wireless provider shall not place or maintain its small wireless facilities so as to interfere with, displace, damage or destroy any utilities, including, but not limited to, sewers, gas or watermains, storm drains, pipes, cables or conduits of the village or any other person's facilities lawfully occupying the village's public rights-of-way.
(6) The Village shall have the right to make such inspections of small wireless facilities placed or maintained in public rights-of-way as it finds necessary to ensure compliance with this Chapter.
(Ord. 1679. Passed 9-10-18.)