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SERVICE LATERAL. An underground facility that is used to transmit, distribute or furnish 'gas, electricity, communications, or water from a common source to an end-use customer. A service lateral is also an underground facility that is used in the removal of wastewater from a customer's premises. SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY. A wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume or could fit within such an enclosure; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the small wireless facility provided such equipment is, in aggregate, no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including electric meters, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation boxes, battery backup power systems, grounding equipment, power transfer switches, cutoff switches, cable, conduit, vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services, and any equipment concealed from public view within or behind an existing structure or concealment. Note: Minn. Stat. § 237.162, Subd. 11. SUPPLEMENTARY APPLICATION. An application made to excavate or obstruct more of the right-of-way than allowed in, or extend, a permit that had already been issued. TEMPORARY SURFACE. The compaction of subbase and aggregate base and replacement, in kind, of the existing pavement only to the edges of the excavation. It is temporary in nature except when the replacement is of pavement included in the city's two-year plan, in which case it is considered full restoration. TRENCH. An excavation in the pavement, with the excavation having a length equal to or greater than the width of the pavement. TELECOMMUNICATIONS RIGHT-OF-WAY USER. A person owning or controlling a facility in the right-of-way, or seeking to own or control the same, that is used or intended to be used for a facility in the right-of-way that is used or is intended to be used for providing wireless service, or transporting telecommunication or other voice or data information. For purposes of this chapter, a cable communications system defined and regulated under M.S. Chapter 238, as it may be amended from time to time, and telecommunications activities related to providing natural gas or electric energy services, a public utility as defined in Minn. Stat. Sec. 216B.02, a municipality, a municipal gas or power agency organized under Minn. Stat. Chaps. 453 and 453A, or a cooperative electric association organized under Minn. Stat. Chap. 308A, are not telecommunications right-of-way users for purposes of this chapter except to the extent such entity is offering wireless service. UNUSABLE EQUIPMENT. Equipment located in the right-of-way which has remained unused for 1 year and for which the registrant is unable to provide proof that it has either a plan to begin using it within the next 12 months or a potential purchaser or user of the equipment. USER FEE. The sum of money, payable to the city, by a person using or occupying the right- of-way; provided, however, that the city may at its option provide, at any time by ordinance or by amendment thereto, for a greater or different fee applicable to all the persons in an amount and by a method of determination as may be further provided in the ordinance or amendment thereto. (1993 Code, § 1165.02) UTILITY POLE. A pole that is used in whole or in part to facilitate telecommunications or electric service. 67