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The following words shall have the described meaning when used in this title, unless a contrary meaning is apparent from the context of the word:
ANTENNA: A transmitting device used in telecommunications that radiates or captures radio signals.
ANTENNA SUPPORT STRUCTURE: Any structure that can be used for the purpose of supporting an antenna.
CITY: The city of Riverdale, Utah.
CITY-OWNED PROPERTY: Real property that is owned, leased or controlled by the city.
COLOCATION: The location of an antenna on an existing structure, tower or building that is already being used for personal wireless services facilities.
GUYED TOWER: A tower that supports an antenna or antennas and requires guy wires or other stabilizers for support.
LATTICE TOWER: A self-supporting three-or four-sided, open steel frame structure used to support telecommunications equipment.
MONOPOLE: A single, self-supporting, cylindrical pole, constructed without guy wires or ground anchors, that acts as the support structure for antennas.
MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH NO PLATFORM: A monopole with antennas and antenna support structure not exceeding three feet (3') in width or ten feet (10') in height.
MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH PLATFORM: A monopole with antennas and antenna support structure exceeding three feet (3') in width, but not exceeding fifteen feet (15') in width, or eight feet (8') in height.
PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE FACILITIES: Facilities for the provision of personal wireless services. Personal wireless services facilities include transmitters, antennas, structures supporting antennas and electronic equipment that is typically installed in close proximity to a transmitter.
PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICES: Commercial mobile telecommunications services, unlicensed wireless telecommunications services and common carrier wireless telecommunications exchange access services.
PRIVATE PROPERTY: Any real property not owned by the city, even if the property is owned by another public or governmental entity.
ROOF-MOUNTED ANTENNA: An antenna or series of individual antennas mounted on a roof, mechanical room or penthouse of a building or structure.
STEALTH FACILITIES: Personal wireless services facilities which have been designed to be compatible with the natural setting and surrounding structures, and which camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas and/or towers. The term includes, but is not limited to, clock towers, church steeples, light poles, flag poles, signs, electrical transmission facilities. City-owned water tanks are expressly excluded from such uses.
TOWER: A freestanding structure, such as a monopole tower, lattice tower or guyed tower, that is used as a support structure for antennas.
WALL-MOUNTED ANTENNA: An antenna or series of individual antennas mounted on the vertical wall of a building or structure.
WHIP ANTENNA: An antenna that is cylindrical in shape. Whip antennas can be directional or omnidirectional and vary in size depending on the frequency and gain for which they are designed.
(Ord. 557, 2-3-1999; amd. 2001 Code)