Florida Administrative Code › 14 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › 14 - Departmental › Chapter 14-46 - UTILITIES INSTALLATION OR ADJUSTMENT › Section 14-46.005 - Wireless Facilities

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
Purpose.
This rule is established to provide requirements for the
				installation, operation, maintenance, relocation, and adjustment of Small
				Wireless Equipment and Small Wireless Structures within the Florida Department
				of Transportation's (FDOT) rights-of-way in a manner that protects the safety
				of the travelling public, provides for the effective and orderly management of
				the right-of-way, and is consistent with the FDOT's contractual obligations
				under any leases entered into pursuant to Section
				337.251, F.S.
(2)
Application.
This rule
				applies to all new Wireless Equipment and structures intended to support the
				installation of Wireless Equipment, including utility permit applications
				pending on the date this rule becomes effective. Existing Wireless Equipment
				and structures to which Wireless Equipment is attached do not require new
				utility permits provided that they were installed in accordance with all
				applicable laws, regulations, and leases in effect at the time of
				installation.
(3)
Terms and
				Acronyms.
All terms in this rule shall have the same meaning as those in
				Section 334.03, F.S. Additionally, the
				following terms are defined:
(a) Collocate:
				to attach, install, or mount Small Wireless Equipment on, under, or within an
				existing structure.
(b) Wireless
				Equipment: equipment at a fixed location which enables wireless communications
				between user equipment and a communications network, including radio
				transceivers, antennas, wires, coaxial or fiber optic cable or other cables,
				and equipment associated with wireless communications. The term includes Small
				Wireless Equipment. The term does not include any structure or pole on which
				the equipment is attached, physical lines for backhaul facilities, physical
				lines between wireless structures, or technology installed as part of or in
				support of electric distribution pursuant to and consistent with UAM Section
				2.3.1(8).
(c) Small Wireless
				Equipment: Wireless Equipment that meets all the following conditions:
1. Each enclosed antenna is located inside an
				enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet in volume or, in the case of
				antennas that have exposed elements, each antenna and all its exposed elements
				can fit within an enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet in
				volume.
2. All other associated
				wireless equipment 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:
a.
				Electric meters,
b. Concealment
				elements,
c. Telecommunications
				demarcation boxes,
d. Ground-based
				enclosures,
e. Grounding
				equipment,
f. Power transfer
				switches,
g. Cutoff
				switches,
h. Vertical cable runs
				for power and other services, and
i. Small Wireless
				Structures.
3. Does not
				extend more than 10% above or more than ten feet above the structure to which
				it is attached, whichever is greater.
(d) Small Wireless Structure: an existing,
				proposed, or new pole, cable strung between structures, or other structure that
				has or is intended to have Small Wireless Equipment attached to it and such
				structure is not taller than 50 feet above ground level.
(e) UAM: Utility Accommodation Manual, as
				incorporated in Rule 14-46.001, F.A.C.
(f) UAO: The Utility Agency/Owner of Small
				Wireless Equipment, a Small Wireless Structure, or both.