Columbia Definitions ordinance (§ 24-201)

(a) General. For the purposes of this section, the following terms, phrases, words, and abbreviations shall have the meanings given herein, unless otherwise expressly stated. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense and vice versa, words in the plural number include the singular number and vice versa, and masculine gender includes the feminine gender and vice versa. The words "shall" and "will" are mandatory, and "may" is permissive. Unless otherwise expressly stated or contrary to the context, terms, phrases, words, and abbreviations not defined herein shall be given the meaning set forth in RSMo. §§ 67.5110—67.5121 and if not defined therein, this code, and, if not defined therein, their common and ordinary meaning.

Antenna, communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of wireless services.

Applicable codes. Uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to such codes enacted to prevent physical property damage or reasonably foreseeable injury to persons, including the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC).

Applicable law. State and federal law and regulation applicable to the construction, installation, deployment or collocation of wireless facilities and utility poles, including those laws and regulations of general applicability that do not apply exclusively to wireless facilities or wireless providers such as local ordinances and state law relating to use of right-of-way.

Applicant. Any person or company who submits an application and is a wireless provider.

Application. A request submitted by an applicant to the city for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities on a utility pole or wireless support structure, or to approve the installation, modification, or replacement of a utility pole.

City utility pole. Means a utility pole, as defined below, owned, managed, or operated by or on behalf of the city; except municipal electric utility distribution poles or facilities which are expressly excluded under state law.

Collocate or collocation. To install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace small wireless facilities on or immediately adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole, provided that the small wireless facility antenna is located on the wireless support structure or utility pole.

Decorative pole. A city utility pole that is specially designed and placed for aesthetic purposes.

Fee. A one-time, nonrecurring charge.

Historic district. A group of buildings, properties, or sites that are either listed in the National Register of Historic Places or formally determined eligible for listing by the Keeper of the National Register, the individual who has been delegated the authority by the federal agency to list properties and determine their eligibility for the National Register, in accordance with Section VI.D.1.a.i-v of the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement codified at 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Appendix C, or are otherwise located in a district made subject to special design standards adopted by this code or under state law as of January 1, 2018, or subsequently enacted for new developments, and including those areas specifically designated as an HP-O District on the "Official Zoning Map of the City of Columbia, Missouri."

Micro wireless facility. A small wireless facility that meets the following qualifications:

(1) Is not larger in dimension than twenty-four (24) inches in length, fifteen (15) inches in width, and twelve (12) inches in height; and

(2) Any exterior antenna no longer than eleven (11) inches.

Small wireless facility permit. A written authorization from a designated city official required by the city to collocate small wireless facilities in or outside the right-of-way, or to install, replace, maintain or operate a utility pole inside the right-of-way for any purpose.

Rate. A recurring charge.

Right-of-way. The area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, or similar property used for public travel, but not including a federal interstate highway, railroad right-of-way, or private easement.

Small wireless facility. A wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications:

(1) Each wireless provider's antenna could fit within an enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet in volume; and

(2) All other equipment associated with the wireless facility, whether ground or pole mounted, is cumulatively no more than twenty-eight (28) cubic feet in volume, provided that no single piece of equipment on the utility pole shall exceed nine (9) cubic feet in volume; and no single piece of ground mounted equipment shall exceed fifteen (15) cubic feet in volume, exclusive of equipment required by an electric utility or municipal electric utility to power the small wireless facility. The following types of associated ancillary equipment shall not be included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation box, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and vertical cable runs and related conduit for the connection of power and other services.

Technically feasible. By virtue of engineering or spectrum usage, the proposed placement for a small wireless facility or its design or site location can be implemented without a reduction in the functionality of the small wireless facility.

Utility pole. A pole or similar structure that is or may be used in whole or in part by or for wireline communications, lighting, traffic control, signage, the collocation of small wireless facilities, or a similar function, or for electric utility distribution, excepting municipal electric utility distribution poles or facilities as expressly excluded under state law.

Wireless facility. Equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including equipment associated with wireless communications and radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration. The term includes small wireless facilities. The term does not include:

(1) The structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated;

(2) Coaxial or fiber-optic cable between wireless support structures or utility poles;

(3) Coaxial or fiber-optic cable not directly associated with a particular small wireless facility; or

(4) A wireline backhaul facility.

Wireless infrastructure provider. Any utility provider authorized to provide telecommunications service in the state, that builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment or wireless facilities but that is not a wireless services provider.

Wireless provider. A wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless services provider.

Wireless services. Any services using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, including the use of Wi-Fi, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided to the public using wireless facilities.

Wireless services provider. A company who provides wireless services.

Wireless support structure. An existing structure, such as a monopole or tower, whether guyed or selfsupporting, designed to support or capable of supporting wireless facilities; an existing or proposed billboard; an existing or proposed building; or other existing or proposed structure capable of supporting wireless facilities, other than a structure designed solely for the collocation of small wireless facilities. Such term shall not include a utility pole.

Wireline backhaul facility. A physical transmission path, all or part of which is within the right-of-way, used for the transport of communication data by wire from a wireless facility to a network.