§ 2. Intent and purpose.  


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  • It is the intent of the Town of Gulf Stream to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare by providing for the use of the public rights-of-way within the town, to adopt and administer reasonable regulations consistent with state and federal law, including F.S. §§ 337.401, 362.01 and 337.29(3), and the town's home-rule authority in accordance with the provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to provide for the payment of compensation and other consideration by a telecommunications service provider to the town for the cost of regulating and maintaining the public rights-of-way and for the privilege of using the public rights-of-way within the town for constructing and maintaining telecommunications facilities, and to establish the reasonable regulations concerning the use of the public rights-of-way by all telecommunications service providers after the effective date of this appendix. In regulating its public rights-of-way, the town shall be governed by and shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

(Ord. No. 01-3, § 1, 10-19-01)