Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-3 - Attachments to Utility Equipment or Rights of Way › Section 4901:1-3-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
[Comment: For dates of references to a section of either the
				United States Code or a regulation in the code of federal regulations see rule
				4901:1-3-02 of the
				Administrative Code.]
As used within this chapter, these terms denote the
				following:
(A) "Attaching entity"
			 means cable operators, telecommunications carriers, incumbent and other local
			 exchange carriers, public utilities, governmental entities and other entities
			 with either a physical attachment or a request for attachment to the pole,
			 duct, conduit, or right-of-way and that is authorized to attach pursuant to
			 section 4905.51 or
			 4905.71 of the Revised Code. It
			 does not include governmental entities with only seasonal attachments to the
			 pole.
(B) "Cable operator" for
			 purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same  as defined in
			 47 U.S.C.
			 522(5), as effective in
			 paragraph (A) of rule
			 4901:1-3-02 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(C) "Cable
			 service" for purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same
			  as defined in
			 47 U.S.C.
			 522(6), as effective in
			 paragraph (A) of rule
			 4901:1-3-02 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(D) "Cable
			 system" for purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same
			  as defined in
			 47 U.S.C.
			 522(7), as effective in
			 paragraph (A) of rule
			 4901:1-3-02 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(E)
			 "Commission" means the public utilities commission of Ohio.
(F) "Communications space" means that
			 portions of the pole typically used for the placement of communications
			 conductors beginning below the bottom point of the communications workers
			 safety zone and ending at the lowest point on the pole to which horizontal
			 conductors may be safely attached.
(G) "Complex make-ready" means the transfers
			 and work within the communications space that would be reasonably likely to
			 cause a service outage(s) or facility damage, including work such as splicing
			 of any communications attachment or relocation of existing wireless
			 attachments. Any and all wireless activities, including those involving mobile,
			 fixed, point-to-point wireless communications and wireless internet service
			 providers, are to be considered complex.
(H) "Conduit" means a structure containing
			 one or more ducts, usually placed in the ground, in which cables or wires may
			 be installed.
(I) "Conduit system"
			 means a collection of one or more conduits together with their supporting
			 infrastructure.
(J) "Days" means
			 calendar days for the purposes of these rules.
(K) "Duct" means a single enclosed raceway
			 for conductors, cable, and/or wire.
(L) "Electric company" for purposes of this
			 chapter, 
								means the same  as defined in division (A)(3) of section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(M) "Inner-duct" means a
			 duct-like raceway smaller than a duct that is inserted into a duct so that the
			 duct may carry multiple wires or cables.
(N) "Local exchange carrier" (LEC) for
			 purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same  as defined in division (A)(7) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(O) "Overlashing" means the
			 tying or lashing of additional fiber optic and/or coaxial cables to existing
			 communications wires, cables, or supporting strands already attached to
			 poles.
(P) "Pole attachment" means
			 any attachment by an attaching entity to a pole, duct, conduit, or right-of-way
			 owned or controlled by a public utility.
(Q) "Public utility" for purposes of this
			 chapter, 
								means the same  as defined in section
			 4905.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Simple make-ready" means
			 make-ready where existing attachments in the communications space of a pole
			 could be transferred without any reasonable expectation of a service outage or
			 facility damage and does not require splicing of any existing communications
			 attachment or relocation of an existing wireless attachment.
(S) "Telecommunications" for purposes of this
			 chapter, 
								means the same meaning as defined in division (A)(10)
			 of section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Telecommunications
			 carrier" for purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same
			  as defined in division (A)(11) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(U) "Telecommunications
			 services" for purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same
			  as defined in division (A)(12) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Telephone company" for
			 purposes of this chapter, 
								means the same  as defined in division (A)(13) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised Code and
			 includes the definition of "telecommunications carrier" incorporated in
			 47 U.S.C.
			 153(44), as effective in
			 paragraph (A) of rule
			 4901:1-3-02 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(W) "Unusable
			 space" with respect to poles, means the space on a public utility pole below
			 the usable space, including the amount required to set the depth of the
			 pole.
(X) "Usable space" with
			 respect to poles, means the space on a public utility pole above the minimum
			 grade level which can be used for the attachment of wires, cables, and
			 associated equipment, and which includes space occupied by the public utility.
			 With respect to conduit, the term usable space means capacity within a conduit
			 system which is available, or which could, with reasonable effort and expense,
			 be made available, for the purpose of installing wires, cable, and associated
			 equipment for telecommunications or cable services, and which includes capacity
			 occupied by the public utility.