Section 12-K:2 Definitions.
In this chapter:
I. ""Antenna'' means the equipment from which wireless radio signals are sent and received by a PWSF.
II. ""Average tree canopy height'' means the average height found by inventorying the height above ground level of all trees over a specified height within a specified radius.
III. ""Camouflaged'' means for a personal wireless service facility one that is disguised, hidden, part of an existing or proposed structure, or placed within an existing or proposed structure.
IV. ""Carrier'' means a person that provides personal wireless services.
V. ""Director'' means the director of the office of energy and planning.
VI. ""Disguised'' means, for a PWSF, designed to look like a structure which may commonly be found in the area surrounding a proposed PWSF such as, but not limited to, flagpoles, light poles, traffic lights, or artificial tree poles.
VII. ""Equipment shelter'' means an enclosed structure, cabinet, shed vault, or box near the base of a mount within which are housed equipment for PWSFs, such as batteries and electrical equipment.
VIII. ""Height'' means the height above ground level from the natural grade of a site to the highest point of a structure.
IX. ""Mount'' means the structure or surface upon which antennas are mounted and include roof-mounted, side-mounted, ground-mounted, and structure-mounted types.
X. ""Municipality'' means any city, town, unincorporated town, or unorganized place within the state.
XI. ""Personal Wireless Service Facility'' or ""PWSF'' or ""facility'' means any ""PWSF'' as defined in the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. section 332(c)(7)(C)(ii), including facilities used or to be used by a licensed provider of personal wireless services.
XII. ""Personal Wireless Services'' means any wireless telecommunications services, and commercial mobile services including cellular telephone services, personal communications services, and mobile and radio paging services as defined in the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. section 332 (c)(7)(C)(i).
XIII. ""Radio frequency radiation'' means the emissions from personal wireless service facilities.
Source. 2000, 240:1, eff. Aug. 7, 2000. 2003, 319:9, eff. July 1, 2003. 2004, 257:44, eff. July 1, 2004.