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4.6. Interference with Public Safety Communications

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In order to ensure that the City’s public safety radio services will be free from objectionable technical interference, all applicants requesting a permit for a wireless communication facility or an AM/FM/TV/DTV facility shall agree, in addition to any other requirements:

A. To demonstrate compliance with good engineering practices;

B. To provide the City a copy of all inter-modulation studies submitted to the FCC;

C. Not to induce objectionable technical interference to the City’s public safety radio services;

D. To comply with FCC regulations regarding susceptibility to radio frequency interference, frequency coordination requirements, general technical standards for power, antenna, bandwidth limitations, frequency stability, transmitter measurements, operating requirements, and any and all other federal statutory and regulatory requirements relating to radio frequency interference (RFI);

E. In the case of collocation of wireless communications facilities either in the same location or on the same tower as the City’s, to not cause or permit to be caused by its transmissions or other activities on the premises, objectionable technical interference of any kind whatsoever to the broadcasting transmissions, reception, or electromagnetic communications of the City;

F. To pay for any studies requested by the City’s Director to determine if the applicant’s wireless communication facilities are causing objectionable technical interference; and

G. Upon notification by the Director, if the operations of the applicant are causing objectionable technical interference, to immediately undertake all steps necessary to determine the cause of and eliminate such interference utilizing the procedures set forth in the joint wireless industry-public safety “Enhanced Best Practices Guide,” released by the FCC in Appendix D of FCC 04-168 (released August 6, 2004), including the “Good Engineering Practices,” as may be amended or revised by the FCC from time to time in any successor regulations, at the cost of the applicant. If said interference continues for a period in excess of 48 hours after notice from the Director, the City shall have the right to cause the applicant to cease operating the equipment that is causing the objectionable technical interference or to reduce the power sufficiently to ameliorate the objectionable technical interference until the condition causing said interference has abated.