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"Permittee" means any person to who a permit to excavate or obstruct a right-of-way has bee granted by the city under this chapter. "Person" means an individual or entity subject to the laws and rules ofthis state, however organized, whether public or private, whether domestic or foreign, whether for profit or nonprofit, and whether natural, corporate, or political. "Registrant" means any person (I) has or seeks to have its equipment or facilities located in any right-of-way, or (2) in any way occupies or uses, or seeks to occupy or use, the right-of-way or place its facilities or equipment in the right-of-way. "Restore or Restoration" means the process by which an excavated right-of-way and surrounding area, including pavement and foundation, is returned to the same condition and life expectancy that existed before excavating. "Restoration Costs" means the amount of money paid to the city by a permittee to achieve the level of restoration according to plates I to 13 of Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Rules. "Public Right-of-Way" means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, cart- way, bicycle lane and public side walk in which the city has an interest, including other dedicated rights-of-way for travel purposes and utility easements of the city. A right-of-way does not include the airwaves above a right-of-way with regard to cellular or other non-wire telecommunications or broadcast service. "Right-of-Way" means either the excavation permit or the obstruction permit, or both, depending on the context, required by this chapter. "Right-of-Way User" means (I) a telecommunications right-of-way user as defined by Minn. Statutes, Sec. 237.162, Subd. 4; or (2) a person owning or controlling a facility in the right-of-way that is used or intended to be used for providing utility service, and who has a right under law, franchise, or ordinance to use the public right-of-way. "Service of Utility Service" included (I) those services provided by a public utility as defined in Minn. Stat. 2168.02, Subd. 4 and 6; (2) services of a telecommunications right-of-way user, including transporting of voice or date information; (3) services of a cable communications systems as defined in Minn. Stat. Chapter 238; (4) natural gas or electric energy or telecommunications services provided by the city; (5) service provided by a cooperative electric association organized under Minn. Stat., Chapter 308A; and (6) water, sewer, steam, cooling or heating services. "Supplementary Application" means an application made to excavate or obstruct more ofthe right- of-way than allowed in, or to extend, a permit that had already been issued. "Temporary Surface" means the compaction of sub-base 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 including in the city's capital improvement plan, and is 4