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❑ A city must not limit the placement of small wireless facilities, either by minimum separation distances between small wireless facilities or maximum height limitations, except that each wireless support structure installed in the right of way after the effective date of this act shall not exceed 50 feet above ground level (unless the local government unit agrees to a greater height). ❑ A city can set forth in its ordinance separation requirements for placement of wireless support structures in relation to other wireless support structures. ❑ A city still may deny permit for health, safety, and welfare reasons or for noncompliance with decorative wireless support structures or signs. ❑ A city cannot require a person to pay a small wireless facility permit fee, obtain a small wireless facility permit, or enter into a small wireless facility collocation agreement solely in order to conduct routine maintenance of a small wireless facility; replace a small wireless facility with a new facility that is substantially similar or smaller in size, weight, height, and wind or structural loading; or install, place, maintain, operate, or replace micro wireless facilities suspended on cables strung between existing_ utility poles in compliance with national safety codes. ❑ A city cannot require an applicant to apply for or enter any individual license, franchise, or other agreement with the local government unit or any other entity, other than the optional standard small wireless facility collocation agreement. ❑ A city may require notice of any work that will obstruct a public right of way. OPTIONAL PROVISIONS FOR SMALL WIRELESS FACILITIES ❑ A city is not required to have a separate agreement, but can choose to enter collocation agreements with applicants locating small wireless facilities onto city owned structures to address terms and conditions of the use of the structures. If a city chooses to do so, then it must make the agreement available to the public in a substantially complete format no later than six months after the effective date or three months after receiving a small wireless facility permit application from a wireless service provider. ❑ A city may elect to charge each small wireless facility attached to a wireless support structure owned by the local government unit a fee (rental fee), in addition to other fees or charges allowed under the law, consisting of (1) up to $150 per year for rent to occupy space on a wireless support structure; (2) up to $25 per year for maintenance associated with the space occupied on a wireless support structure; and (3) an additional monthly fee for electricity used to operate a small wireless facility, if not purchased directly from a utility, at the rate set forth in the statute.4 4 Minn. Stat. 237.163, Subd. 6 (d). 0