§ 3. Definitions.

Whenever used in this ordinance, the following words and terms shall have the definitions and meanings provided in this section:

(a)

Facilities: All Telephone Company duct spaces, manholes, poles, conduits, underground and overhead passageways, and other equipment, structures and appurtenances and all associated transmission media.

(b)

Use: Any Telephone Company acquisition, construction, reconstruction, maintenance or operation of any facilities in, over, under, along, through or across the public rights-of-way for any purpose whatsoever.

(c)

City: The City of Uvalde, Texas.

(d)

Rights-of way: All present and future streets, avenues, highways, alleys, bridges and public property within the city limits of the City.

(e)

Direction of the City: All ordinances, laws, rules, regulations, and charter provisions of the City now in force or that may hereafter be passed and adopted which are not inconsistent with this ordinance.

(f)

Transmission media: All Telephone Company cables, fibers, wires or other physical devices used to transmit and/or receive communication signals, whether analog, digital or of other characteristics, and whether for voice, data or other purposes.

(g)

Non-exclusive: No rights agreed to in this ordinance by the City shall be exclusive, and the City reserves the right to grant franchises, licenses, easements or permissions to use the public rights-of-way within the City to any person or entity as the City, in its sole discretion, may determine to be in the public interest.

(h)

Telephone Company: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.

(Ord. No. 92-06, § 3, 6-9-92)