Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 39-32 - Rhode Island Small Cell Siting Act

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Authority: means a city, town, or any other state or municipal government subdivision, agency, or entity that is authorized by law to regulate or control the use of the public rights-of-way or the construction or installation of poles or wireless facilities or that owns or controls property suitable for collocating small wireless facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Authority pole: means a pole owned or controlled by an authority and includes metal, composite, concrete, or wood poles, as well as decorative poles. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Authority structure: means a building, water tower, or other structure owned or controlled by an authority, but not an authority pole. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Collocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on a pole, including an authority pole, or on a building, water tower, or other structure, including an authority structure. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited-liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Pole: means a utility pole, light pole, light standard, or similar structure that is used, in whole or in part, for telephone service, wireless service, cable television service, information service, electric service, lighting, traffic control, signage, or similar function. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility with an antenna of no more than six cubic feet (6 cu. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• wireless facilities: includes small wireless facilities but does not include the structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated; wireline backhaul facilities; coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or poles; or coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, an antenna. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Wireless service: means any services using licensed or unlicensed wireless spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided using wireless facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Wireless service provider: means a person who provides wireless service, as well as a person who builds, installs, or maintains wireless communications transmission equipment, wireless facilities, or wireless support structures. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1