(d) “Applicable codes” means the state electrical wiring code, as defined in s. 101.80 (4), the state plumbing code specified in s. 145.13, the fire prevention code under ch. SPS 314, Wis. adm. code, the Wisconsin commercial building code under chs. SPS 361 to 366, the Wisconsin uniform dwelling code under chs. SPS 320 to 325, and local amendments to those codes enacted solely to address imminent threats of destruction of property or injury to persons.

(e) “Applicant” means a wireless provider that submits an application.

(f) “Application” means an application for a permit under this section to collocate a small wireless facility or to install, modify, or replace a utility pole.

(g) “Collocate,” “collocate on,” or “collocation” means the placement, mounting, replacement, modification, operation, or maintenance of a small wireless facility on, or of ground-mounted antenna equipment adjacent to, a structure.

(h) “Communications facilities” means the set of equipment and network components, including wires and cables and associated facilities, used by a communications service provider to provide communications service.

(i) “Communications network” means a network used to provide a communications service.

(j) “Communications service” means cable service, as defined in 47 USC 522 (6), telecommunications service, as defined in 47 USC 153 (53), information service, as defined in 47 USC 153 (24), or wireless service.

(k) “Communications service provider” means a person that provides communications service.

(L) “Facility” means an antenna facility or a structure.

(m) “Fee” means a one-time charge.

(n) “Governmental pole” means a utility pole that is owned or operated by the state or by a political subdivision in a right-of-way.

(o) “Investor-owned electric utility” means a public utility whose purpose is the generation, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of electric power but does not include a public utility owned and operated wholly by a municipality or a cooperative association organized under ch. 185.

(p) “Micro wireless facility” means a small wireless facility that does not exceed 24 inches in length, 15 inches in width, and 12 inches in height and that has no exterior antenna longer than 11 inches.

(q) “Permit” means written authorization required by the state or a political subdivision to perform an action, or initiate, continue, or complete a project.

(r) “Political subdivision” means any city, village, town, or county.

(s) “Rate” means a recurring charge.

(t) “Right-of-way” means the area on, below, or above a highway, as defined in s. 340.01 (22), other than a federal interstate highway; sidewalk; utility easement, other than a utility easement for a cooperative association organized under ch. 185 for purposes of providing or furnishing heat, light, power, or water to its members only; or other similar property, including property owned or controlled by the department of transportation.

(u) “Small wireless facility” means a wireless facility to which all of the following apply:

1. The wireless facility satisfies any of the following:

a. The wireless facility is mounted on a structure 50 feet or less in height including any antenna.

b. The wireless facility is mounted on a structure no more than 10 percent taller than any other adjacent structure.

c. The wireless facility does not increase the height of an existing structure on which the wireless facility is located to a height of more than 50 feet or by 10 percent, whichever is greater.

2. Each antenna associated with the deployment of the wireless facility, excluding associated antenna equipment, is no more than 3 cubic feet in volume.

3. All other wireless equipment associated with the wireless facility specified in subd. 1., including the wireless equipment associated with the antenna and any preexisting associated equipment on the structure, is no more than 28 cubic feet in volume.

4. The wireless facility does not require registration as an antenna structure under 47 CFR part 17.

5. The wireless facility is not located on tribal land, as defined in 36 CFR 800.16 (x).

6. The wireless facility does not result in human exposure to radio frequency in excess of the applicable safety standards specified in 47 CFR 1.1307.

(v) Except in par. (zp), “structure” means a utility pole or wireless support structure, whether or not it has an existing antenna facility.