As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Antenna means communications equipment that transmits or receives
electromagnetic radio frequency signals used to provide wireless service.
(1.5) Broadband facility means any infrastructure used to deliver
broadband service or for the provision of broadband service.
(2) Broadband service has the same meaning as set forth in 7 U.S.C. sec.
950bb (b)(1) as of August 6, 2014, and for the purposes of this section includes:
(a) Cable service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. sec. 522 (6) as of August 6, 2014;
(b) Telecommunications service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. sec. 153 as of
August 6, 2014; and
(c) Wireless service, which means data and telecommunications services,
including commercial mobile services, commercial mobile data services, unlicensed
wireless services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services, as all of
these terms are defined by federal law and regulations.
(3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective until January 1,
2026. ] Collocation means the mounting or installation of broadband service
equipment on a tower, building, or structure with existing broadband service
equipment for the purpose of transmitting or receiving radio frequency signals for
communications purposes.
(3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Collocate means the mounting or installation of broadband service equipment on
a tower, building, or structure with existing broadband service equipment for the
purpose of transmitting or receiving radio frequency signals for communications
purposes.
(3.1) [ Editor's note: Subsection (3.1) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Collocation application means an application for a collocation that results in a
substantial change of an existing wireless telecommunications facility.
(3.3) [ Editor's note: Subsection (3.3) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Local
government has the same meaning as set forth in section 29-27-102 (3).
(3.5) Micro wireless facility means a small wireless facility that is no larger
in dimensions than twenty-four inches in length, fifteen inches in width, and twelve
inches in height and that has an exterior antenna, if any, that is no more than eleven
inches in length.
(3.7) [ Editor's note: Subsection (3.7) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Siting
application means an application for a new wireless service facility.
(4) (a) Small cell facility means either:
(I) A personal wireless service facility as defined by the federal
Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended as of August 6, 2014; or
(II) A wireless service facility that meets both of the following qualifications:
(A) Each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than three cubic
feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna
and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of no more
than three cubic feet; and
(B) Primary equipment enclosures are no larger than seventeen cubic feet in
volume. The following associated equipment may be located outside of the primary
equipment enclosure and, if so located, is not included in the calculation of
equipment volume: Electric meter, concealment, telecommunications demarcation
box, ground-based enclosures, back-up power systems, grounding equipment,
power transfer switch, and cut-off switch.
(b) Small cell facility includes a micro wireless facility.
(5) Small cell network means a collection of interrelated small cell
facilities designed to deliver wireless service.
(6) Structure means any facility, tower, pole, building, or other structure
constructed for the sole or primary purpose of supporting broadband facilities or
wireless service facilities.
(6.2) [ Editor's note: Subsection (6.2) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Substantial change has the same meaning as set forth in 47 CFR 1.6100 (b)(7),
which implements the federal Spectrum Act of 2012, 47 U.S.C. sec. 1455 (a).
(6.5) Tower means any structure built for the sole or primary purpose of
supporting antennas licensed or authorized by the federal communications
commission and the antennas' associated facilities, including structures that are
constructed for wireless communications services including private, broadcast, and
public safety services; unlicensed wireless services; fixed wireless services such as
backhaul; and the associated site.
(7) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (7) is effective until January 1,
2026. ] Wireless service facility means a facility for the provision of wireless
services; except that wireless service facility does not include coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, a
particular antenna.
(7) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (7) is effective January 1, 2026. ] Wireless service facility or facility means equipment at a fixed location that
enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications
network, including:
(a) Macro and small cell facilities, transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment,
regardless of technological configuration, but does not include coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, a
particular antenna; and
(b) The support structure or improvements on, under, or within which the
equipment is collocated.