A person wishing to construct, install, place, operate, replace, reconstruct, or maintain a private communications system in a public rights-of-way must obtain a license therefor. The license shall only authorize placement of the system in a specific portion of the public rights-of-way for a limited and specific purpose in connection with the person’s business but not encompassing in whole or in part the carriage of telecommunications for hire in the public rights-of-way, and for a limited period of time. Such application must be in the form provided for by regulation and must be accompanied by a filing fee, covering the cost of administration of this application. (Ord. 2002-36 § 1, 2002)

Any license shall be subject to such conditions as the city may from time to time establish, shall be expressly subordinate to the use of the public rights-of-way by operators of communications facilities, and shall otherwise conform to the requirements of this title. Subject to the foregoing, the provisions of BIMC 19.02.050 shall apply to a private communications system as if it were a communications facility. (Ord. 2002-36 § 1, 2002)