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Bench Handout
<br /> Item 7.c
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<br />111 SERVICE OR UTILITY SERVICE: Includes, but is not limited to: a) those services provided by
<br />112 a public utility as defined in Minnesota Statutes section 216B.02, subdivisions 4 and 6; b)
<br />113 telecommunications, pipeline, community antenna television, fire and alarm communications,
<br />114 water, electricity, light, heat, cooling energy, or power services; c) the services provided by a
<br />115 corporation organized for the purposes set forth in Minnesota Statutes section 300.03; d) the
<br />116 services provided by a district heating or cooling system; and e) cable communications systems as
<br />117 defined in Minnesota Statutes chapter 238; and f) a telecommunications right-of-way user as
<br />118 defined below; and g) water and sewer, including service laterals, steam, cooling or heating
<br />119 services. (Ord. 1333, 3-13-2006)
<br />120 SERVICE LATERAL: means an underground facility that is used to transmit, distribute, or furnish
<br />121 gas, electricity, communications, or water from a common source to an end-use customer. A
<br />122 service lateral is also an underground facility that is used in the removal of wastewater from a
<br />123 customer’s premises. (Ord. 1333, 3-13- 2006)
<br />124 SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY: a wireless facility owned and operated by an approved
<br />125 telecommunications right-of-way user that meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each
<br />126 antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume or could fit within
<br />127 such an enclosure; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the small wireless facility
<br />128 provided such equipment is, in aggregate, in an enclosure no more than 28 cubic feet in volume or
<br />129 enclosures totaling 28 cubic feet in volume, not including electric meters, concealment elements,
<br />130 telecommunications demarcation boxes, battery backup power systems, grounding equipment,
<br />131 power transfer switches, cutoff switches, cable, conduit, vertical cable runs for the connection of
<br />132 power and other services, and any equipment concealed from public view within or behind an
<br />133 existing structure or concealment. (Ord. 1549, 4-9-2018)
<br />134 SUPPLEMENTARY APPLICATION: An application made to excavate or obstruct more of the
<br />135 right of way than allowed in, or to extend, a permit that had already been issued.
<br />136 TELECOMMUNICATION RIGHT-OF-WAY USER: A entity, which directly provides and
<br />137 offers wireless service to the general public, owning or controlling a facility in the right of way, or
<br />138 seeking to own or control a facility in the public right of way that is used or is intended to be used
<br />139 for providing wireless services, or transporting telecommunication or other voice or data
<br />140 information. For purposes of this Chapter, a cable communication system defined and regulated
<br />141 under Minnesota Statutes chapter 238, and telecommunication activities related to providing
<br />142 natural gas or electric energy services are not included in this definition, except to the extent such
<br />143 entity is offering wireless service. This definition shall not be inconsistent with Minn. Stats.
<br />144 §237.162, subd. 4. (Ord. 1549, 4-9-2018)
<br />145 UNUSABLE FACILITIES: Facilities in the right of way which have remained unused for one
<br />146 year and for which the registrant is unable to provide proof that it has either a plan to begin using
<br />147 it within the next twelve months or a potential purchaser or user of the equipment. (Ord. 1209, 8-
<br />148 24-1998)
<br />149 UTILITY POLE: a pole that is used in whole or in part to facilitate telecommunications or electric
<br />150 service. (Ord. 1549, 4-9-2018)
<br />151 WIRELINE BACKHAUL FACILITY: a facility used to transport communications data by wire
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