Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-502

As used in the Oklahoma Small Wireless Facilities Deployment

Act:

1. "Antenna" means communications equipment that transmits or

receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the

provision of wireless services;

2. "Applicable codes" means uniform building, fire, electrical,

plumbing or mechanical codes adopted by a recognized national code

organization or local amendments to those codes enacted solely to

address imminent threats of destruction of property or injury to

persons to the extent not inconsistent with this act;

3. "Applicant" means any person who submits an application and

is a wireless provider;

4. "Application" means a request submitted by an applicant to

an authority:

a. for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities,

or

b. to approve the installation, modification or

replacement of a utility pole;

5. "Authority" means a municipality or a municipal electric

utility;

6. "Authority pole" means a utility pole owned, managed or

operated by or on behalf of an authority;

7. "Collocate" means to install, mount, maintain, modify,

operate or replace small wireless facilities on or adjacent to a

wireless support structure or utility pole. "Collocation" has a

corresponding meaning;

8. "Communications service provider" means a cable operator as

defined in 47 U.S.C., Section 522(5), a provider of information

service as defined in 47 U.S.C., Section 153(24), a

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telecommunications carrier as defined in 47 U.S.C., Chapter 153(51),

or a wireless provider;

9. "Decorative pole" means an authority pole that is specially

designed and placed for aesthetic purposes and on which no

appurtenances or attachments, other than a small wireless facility,

light fixtures or specially designed informational or directional

signage or temporary holiday or special event attachments, have been

placed or are permitted to be placed according to nondiscriminatory

municipal rules or codes;

10. "Electric distribution pole" means an authority pole used

to support an electric distribution system;

11. "FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission of the

United States;

12. "Fee" means a one-time, nonrecurring charge;

13. "Historic district" means a group of buildings, properties

or sites that are zoned by the authority as a historic district on

or before March 31, 2018; included in the State Register of Historic

Places in accordance with Section 355 of Title 53 of the Oklahoma

Statutes; or 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;

14. "Law" means federal, state or local law, statute, common

law, code, rule, regulation, order or ordinance;

15. "Micro wireless facility" means a small wireless facility

that meets the following qualifications:

a. is not larger in dimension than twenty-four (24)

inches in length, fifteen (15) inches in width, and

twelve (12) inches in height, and

b. any exterior antenna is no longer than eleven (11)

inches;

16. "Permit" means a written authorization required by an

authority to perform an action or initiate, continue or complete a

project;

17. "Person" means an individual, corporation, limited

liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity

or organization, including an authority;

18. "Rate" means a recurring charge;

19. "Right-of-way" means the area within the jurisdiction of

the authority that is on, below or above a public roadway, highway,

street, sidewalk, alley or similar property or a public easement

that authorizes the deployment sought by the wireless provider, but
mpany, partnership, association, trust or other entity

or organization, including an authority;

18. "Rate" means a recurring charge;

19. "Right-of-way" means the area within the jurisdiction of

the authority that is on, below or above a public roadway, highway,

street, sidewalk, alley or similar property or a public easement

that authorizes the deployment sought by the wireless provider, but

does not include a federal interstate highway;

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20. "Small wireless facility" means a wireless facility that

meets both of the following qualifications:

a. each antenna of the wireless provider could fit within

an enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet in

volume, and

b. all other wireless equipment associated with the

wireless facility, whether ground- or pole-mounted, is

cumulatively no more than twenty-eight (28) cubic feet

in volume. The following types of associated

ancillary equipment are not 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 for the connection

of power and other services;

21. "Technically feasible" means that 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;

22. "Utility pole" means a pole or similar structure that is or

may be used in whole or in part by or for wireline communications,

electric distribution, lighting, traffic control, signage or a

similar function, or for the collocation of small wireless

facilities; provided, however, such term shall not include wireless

support structures or electric transmission structures. Utility

poles controlled by an investor-owned electric utility or electric

cooperative are subject to Section 7 of this act;

23. "Wireless facility" means equipment at a fixed location

that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a

communications network, including: (a) equipment associated with

wireless communications; and (b) 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:

a. the structure or improvements on, under or within

which the equipment is collocated, or

b. coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless

support structures or utility poles or that is

otherwise not immediately adjacent to or directly

associated with a particular antenna;

24. "Wireless infrastructure provider" means any person

authorized to provide telecommunications service in the state that

builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment,

wireless facilities or wireless support structures but that is not a

wireless services provider;

25. "Wireless provider" means a wireless infrastructure

provider or a wireless services provider;

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26. "Wireless services" means any services, whether at a fixed

location or mobile, provided to the public using wireless

facilities;

27. "Wireless services provider" means a person who provides

wireless services; and

28. "Wireless support structure" means a structure such as a

monopole; tower, either guyed or self-supporting; billboard;

building; or other existing or proposed structure designed to

support or 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.