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<br />Registrant. Any person who (1) has or seeks to have its equipment or facilities located in any <br />right of way, or (2) in any way occupies or uses, or seeks to occupy or use, the right of way or <br />place its facilities or equipment in the right of way. <br /> <br />Restore or Restoration. The process by which an excavated right of way and surrounding <br />area, including pavement and foundation, is returned to the same condition and life expectancy <br />that existed before excavation. <br /> <br />Restoration Cost. The amount of money paid to the city by a permittee to achieve the level <br />of restoration according to plates 1 to 13 of Minnesota Public Utilities Commission rules. <br /> <br />Public Right of Way or Right of Way. The area on, below, or above a public roadway, <br />highway, street, cartway, bicycle lane, or public sidewalk in which the city has an interest, <br />including other dedicated rights of way for travel purposes and utility easements of the city. <br />A right of way does not include the airwaves above a right of way with regard to cellular or <br />other non-wire telecommunications or broadcast service. <br /> <br />Right of Way Permit. Either the excavation permit or the obstruction permit, or both, <br />depending on the context, required by this chapter. <br /> <br />Right of Way User. (1) A telecommunications right of way user as defined by Minn. Stat., § <br />237.162, subd. 4; or (2) a person owning or controlling a facility in the right of way that is <br />used or intended to be used for providing utility service, and who has a right under law, <br />franchise, or ordinance to use the public right of way. <br /> <br />Service or Utility Service. Includes (1) those services provided by a public utility as defined <br />in Minn. Stat. 216B.02, subds. 4 and 6; (2) services of a telecommunications right of way user, <br />including transporting of voice or data information; (3) services of a cable communications <br />systems as defined in Minn. Stat. ch. 238; (4) natural gas or electric energy or <br />telecommunications services provided by the city; (5) services provided by a cooperative <br />electric association organized under Minn. Stat., ch. 308A; and (6) water, and sewer, including <br />service laterals, steam, cooling, or heating services. <br /> <br />Service Lateral. An underground facility that is used to transmit, distribute or furnish ‘gas, <br />electricity, communications, or water from a common source to an end-use customer. A <br />service lateral is also an underground facility that is used in the removal of wastewater from a <br />customer’s premises. <br /> <br />Small Wireless Facility. A wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications: <br />(i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume <br />or could fit within such an enclosure; and <br />(ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the small wireless facility provided such <br />equipment is, in aggregate, no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including <br />electric meters, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation boxes, <br />battery backup power systems, grounding equipment, power transfer switches, cutoff <br />switches, cable, conduit, vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other