Shall mean man-made trees, clock towers, bell steeples, flag poles, and similar alternative-design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.

Shall mean the buildings, cabinets, vaults, closures and equipment required for operation of telecommunications systems including but not limited to repeaters, equipment housing, and ventilation and other mechanical equipment.

Shall mean any exterior apparatus designed for telephone, radio or television communications through the sending and receiving of electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals), wireless telecommunications signals or other communication signals. Parabolic dish antennas used for satellite communications shall not be included within this definition.

Shall mean the lines that connect a provider's towers/cell sites to one or more cellular telephone switching offices, and/or long distance providers, or the public switched telephone network.

Shall mean surrounding a telecommunications tower and ancillary facilities which lies between the tower and adjacent lot lines and/or land uses.

Shall mean a company that provides wireless services.

Shall mean when two or more receiving and/or transmitting facilities are placed together in the same location or on the same antenna support structure.

Shall mean the Federal Aviation Administration.

Shall mean the area on the ground within a prescribed radius from the base of a wireless telecommunications tower. The fall zone is the area within which there is a potential hazard from falling debris (such as ice) or collapsing of the structure or portion thereof.

Shall mean the Federal Communications Commission.

Shall mean Cellular Radio, Personal Communication Service (PCS), Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio, Specialized Mobile Radio and Paging, Commercial Land Mobile Radio and additional emerging technologies.

Shall mean a tower, which is supported or braced through the use of cables (guy wires) which are permanently anchored.

Shall mean, when referring to a tower, the vertical distance measured from the lowest finished grade at the base of the tower to the highest point on the tower, even if said highest point is an antenna.

Shall mean a type of mount that is self- supporting with multiple legs and cross-bracing of structural steel.

Shall mean the type of mount that is self- supporting with a single shaft of wood, steel or concrete and a platform (or racks) for panel antennas arrayed at the upper portions of pole.

Shall mean the structure or surface upon which antennas are mounted, including the following four types of mounts:

Shall mean a facility for the provision of personal wireless services, as defined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Shall mean any tower or antenna for which a building permit has been properly issued prior to the effective date of this section, including permitted towers or antennas that have been approved but have not yet been constructed so long as approval is current and not expired.

For the purposes of this section shall mean the emissions from personal wireless service facilities or any electromagnetic energy within the frequency range from 0.003 MHz to 300,000 MHz.

Shall mean a telecommunication facility that is designed or located in such a way that the facility is not readily recognizable as telecommunications equipment (see Alternative Tower Structure).

Shall mean a facility designed and used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, and relaying voice and data signals from various wireless communication devices including transmission towers, antennas and ancillary facilities. For purposes of this section, amateur radio transmission facilities and facilities used exclusively for the transmission of television and radio broadcasts are not telecommunication facilities.

Shall mean the monopole or lattice framework designed to support transmitting and receiving antennas. For purposes of this section, amateur radio transmission facilities and facilities used exclusively for the transmission of television and radio signals are not transmission towers.

Shall mean any personal wireless services as defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 which includes FCC licensed commercial wireless telecommunications services including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), specialized mobile radio (ESMR), paging, and similar services that currently exist or may in the future be developed. It does not include any amateur radio facility that is owned and operated by a federally-licensed amateur radio station operator or is used exclusively for receive only antennas, nor does it include noncellular telephone service.