Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 974 CMR - DEVENS ENTERPRISE COMMISSION › Title 974 CMR 10.00 - Wireless Communications Facilities › Section 10.03 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
For purposes of
				974 CMR 10.00, the following
				definitions shall take precedence over words defined otherwise in 974 CMR and
				By-laws of the DEC.
Act
: The Communications Act of 1934,
				as it has been amended from time to time, including the Telecommunications Act
				of 1996, and future amendments.
Antenna
: Any exterior apparat us
				designed for telephonic, radio, or television communications through sending
				an
d/or
receiving of electromagnetic waves.
Camouflaged
: Made to resemble a
				man-made architectural/structural feature of the host building or structure;
				situated within an existing architectural feature or appurtenance in order to
				conceal the proposed facility; or painted or decorated in order to hide or
				conceal the facility from public view.
Co-location
: The use of a single mount
				on the ground by more than one carrier (vertical co-location) and/or several
				mounts on an existing building or structure by more than one carrier.
Grade
: The lowest point of elevation
				of the finished surface of the ground (after grading), paving, or sidewalk
				within the area between the structure and the property line or, when the
				property line is more than five feet from the structure, between the structure
				and a line five feet from the structure as measured by the Director.
Height
: The vertical distance measured
				from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highe stpoint of
				the facility.
Internal Industrial Street
: A local
				street whose sole function is to provide access to abutting industrial
				properties and to other roads from other industrial properties
Licensed Carrier
: A company that is in
				the telecommunications business by means of Federal Communications
				Commission(FCC) authorization or license, in order to provide licensed mobile
				radio and telecommunications services to individual, businesses or
				institutions.
Monopole
: A single shafted,
				self-supporting vertical pole without guy wires, for the purpose of supporting
				wireless communications equipment.
Planned Public Rights of Way
: The
				proposed location of a public way as shown on the most recently adopted Master
				Plan of the DEZ.
Screening
: Refers to any method -
				other than direct architectural treatment or encasement
				(
see
974 CMR 10.03:
Camouflage
) - used
				to attain significant visual attenuation or concealment of a facility. May
				include any of the following or combinations thereof: natural vegetation;
				landscaping; topographic features; visually impermeable fencing; or buildings
				and other structures which clearly limit view of the facility from a public way
				or publicly accessible open space.
Setback
: The distance between the
				outer most edge of the facility, including any structure thereof, and the lot
				line, the district zoning boundary line, the boundaries of the DEZ, the line of
				the street right-of-way, or other specified feature as more particularly set
				forth in
				974 CMR
				10.06(3).
Tower
: A support structure for
				wireless communications equipment involved in the transmission, receiving or
				relaying of electromagnetic signals. The term includes radio and television
				towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers,
				alternative tower structures, and the like.
Wireless Communications Facility
				("Facility"
): Any or all equipment, buildings and other structures
				with which a licensed carrier transmits, receives or relays the electromagnetic
				(or radio frequency or television signals, or any other spectrum based
				transmissions or receptions) waves which carry their
				services.