Sponsored by:
Assemblyman UPENDRA J. CHIVUKULA
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Assemblyman CHARLES MAINOR
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY
District 3 (Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Provides certain collocations of wireless equipment, minor site plan status.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee on November 21, 2011, with amendments.
An Act concerning the collocation of wireless communications equipment and supplementing P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. An application for development to collocate wireless communications equipment on a wireless communications support structure 1or in an existing equipment compound1 shall 1not1 be 1[deemed a minor] subject to1 site plan 1[for which the requirements of notice and public hearing shall be waived, subject to] review provided the application meets1 the following requirements:
(1) the wireless communications support structure shall have been previously granted all necessary approvals by the appropriate approving authority;
(2) the proposed collocation shall not increase 1(a)1 the overall height 1[or] of the wireless communications support structure by more than ten percent of the original height of the wireless communications support structure, (b) the1 width of the wireless communications support structure 1,1 or 1(c)1 the square footage of the existing equipment compound 1to an area greater than 2,500 square feet1;
(3) the proposed collocation complies with the final approval of the wireless communications support structure and all conditions attached thereto.
b. For purposes of this section:
“Equipment compound” means an area surrounding or adjacent to the base of a wireless communications support structure within which is located wireless communications equipment.
“Collocate” means to place or install wireless communications equipment on a wireless communications support structure.
“Wireless communications equipment” means the set of equipment and network components used in the provision of wireless communications services: including, but not limited to, antennas, transmitters, receivers, base stations, equipment shelters, cabinets, emergency generators, power supply cabling, and coaxial and fiber optic cable, but excluding wireless communications support structures.
“Wireless communications
support structure” means a structure that is designed to support, or is capable
of supporting, wireless
communications equipment, including a monopole, self-supporting lattice tower,
guyed tower, water tower, utility pole, or building.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.