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ARTICLE II. -TELECOMMUNICATION INSTALLATION REGULATIONS
<br />Sec. 74-19. - Definitions.
<br />The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed
<br />to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
<br />Administrator means the city administrator (or equivalent position at the city) or designated
<br />representative.
<br />Company means a natural or corporate person, business association, political subdivision, public or
<br />private agency of any kind, its successors and assigns, who or which seeks or is required to construct,
<br />install, operate, repair, maintain, remove or relocate facilities in the city.
<br />Facilities means communications lines or equipment of any kind, including, but not limited to, lines or
<br />equipment for the transmission of audio, video, or data, or other similar communications services, not
<br />otherwise governed by any state law granting exclusive jurisdiction to the state level, including al trunks,
<br />lines, cables, wires, optical fibers or other fiber optic cables, laser equipment, circuits, physical
<br />connections, switching equipment, wireless communication equipment of all kinds, towers, and any
<br />necessary appurtenances owned, leased or operated by a company on, over, in, under, across or along
<br />any public ground.
<br />Public ground means highways, roads, streets, alleys, public ways, utility easements and public
<br />grounds in the city.
<br />Small wireless facility means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications: (1)
<br />each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an
<br />antenna that has exposed elements the antenna and all its exposed elements could fit within an
<br />enclosure of no more than six cubic feet, and (2) all other wireless equipment associated with the small
<br />wireless facility, excluding electric meters _concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation
<br />boxes battery backup ower systems, roundin equipment, power transfer switches cutoff switches
<br />cable, conduit. vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services, and any equipment
<br />concealed from public view within or behind an existing structure or concealment, is in aggregate no more
<br />than 28 cubic feet in volume
<br />(Prior Code, § 270-010)
<br />Sec. 74-20. - Permit procedure.
<br />(a) Permit required. A company may not construct, install, repair, remove or relocate facilities, or any
<br />part thereof, in, on, over, under or along public ground without first obtaining a permit from the city.
<br />(b) Application. Application for a permit is made to the administrator.
<br />(c) Issuance of permit. If the administrator determines that the applicant has satisfied the
<br />requirements of applicable ordinances, the administrator may issue a permit to the company. An
<br />applicant may contest a permit denial or the conditions of approval by written notice to the clerk
<br />requesting the city council review within 14 days of the administrator's action. The council shall hear
<br />any contest of the administrator's actions under this article within 45 days of the city clerk's receipt of
<br />the contest notice. Nothing in this article precludes the city from requiring a franchise agreement with
<br />the applicant, as allowed by law, in addition to the issuance of a permit set forth herein.
<br />(d) Permit fee. The application must be accompanied by the permit fee set by the city council by
<br />resolution.
<br />(e) Security for completion of work. Prior to commencement of work, the company must deposit with
<br />the city security in the form of a certified check, letter of credit or construction bond, in a sufficient
<br />amount as determined by the administrator for the completion of the work. The securities will be held
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