5-7-030 Definitions
Unofficial copy. It may be out of date. Not legal or zoning advice. Zoning rules change, and only the city or county can say for sure what is allowed on a property. Confirm with the city or county planning department before you buy, sign or build.
The official Box Elder County code is at https://www.boxeldercountyut.gov/241/Land-Use-Management-Development-Code.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
Chapter 5-4 (Flood Damage Prevention) is a scanned image on the county's site and is not included.
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As used in this chapter:
A. Abandoned: A tower or project shall be considered abandoned when, once installed fails to operate for 24 months.
B. Collocation: A telecommunications facility includes a single antenna support structure, but more than one telecommunications provider’s antennas and telecommunication equipment.
C. Equipment Enclosure: A structure, shelter, cabinet or vault used to house and protect the electronic equipment necessary for processing wireless communication signals and other telecommunication equipment.
D. Height: The height of a tower measured from natural grade to the tip of the tower or any attached antenna at its highest point.
E. Lattice Tower: A self-supporting multiple-sided, open steel frame structure used to support communication equipment.
F. Monopole Facility: An antenna or series of individual antennas mounted on a single cylindrical pole, including associated equipment.
G. Radio/Telecommunications Tower: A structure intended for transmitting or receiving television, radio or telephone communications that is primarily supported by its own foundation.
H. Roof Antenna: An antenna or series of individual antennas mounted on a flat or pitched roof, mechanical room or penthouse of a building or structure. This facility includes associated equipment.
I. Telecommunications Equipment: Equipment used in a telecommunications facility other than the antenna, antenna support structure or equipment enclosures. Telecommunications equipment may include, but is not limited to, electronic equipment necessary for processing wireless communication signals, air conditioning, backup power supplies and emergency generators.
J. Telecommunications Facility: An unmanned structure which consists of “antennas”, “antennas support structures”, “telecommunications equipment”, and “equipment enclosures”, as defined herein, that transmit and/or receive voice and/or data communications through radio signals such as, but not limited to, “cellular” or “PCS” (personal communications system) communications and paging systems, whether commercially or privately operated.
K. Utility Structure and Related Facilities: May include a building/structure that is constructed so as to provide assistance, benefit and aid, directly or indirectly, to a service such as electrical power, light, and forms of communication including telephone, telegraph, fiber optic signals, cellular service for both analog and digital signals, and radio and television signals to name a few. This is not intended to be all inclusive.
L. Utility Tower: A structure typically higher relative to surrounding structures that provides a service in the form of electrical power, light, or forms of communication, limited to telephone, telegraph and fiber optic signals. Utility towers do not include towers used exclusively for wireless communications.