Definitions.
Milwaukee Code of Ordinances § 98-3
in effect98-3. Definitions.
In this chapter:
1. COMMISSIONER means the commissioner of public works or the commissioner’s designee.
2. CONDUIT SYSTEM means any city-owned reinforced passage or opening capable of containing transmission facilities now existing or hereinafter constructed to accommodate a permittee's transmission facilities in, on, under or through the ground and includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
a. Main line conduit and manhole system.
b. Laterals extending into buildings, pull-boxes, handholes or terminus location.
3. CONDUIT DUCT means a standard 4-inch, or other custom size, passage or opening within the conduit system.
4. DEPARTMENT means the department of public works.
5. LICENSEE means any person who is authorized to occupy city-owned conduit pursuant to an approved conduit occupancy license agreement.
6. OCCUPIABLE SPACE means the area within a conduit duct that is available for installation of transmission facilities and which shall not exceed 60% of the conduit duct cross-section.
7. PERMITTEE means any person to whom a permit to install transmission facilities within city-owned conduit has been granted under this chapter.
8. PERSON means a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, unit of government other than the city, university or other educational institution, or individual and their lessor, transferee or receiver.
9. SERVICE is used in its broadest and most inclusive sense.
10. TRANSMISSION FACILITY is used in its most inclusive sense and means any cables, wires, lines, optical fibers or other fiber optic cables, or any associated equipment or facilities.
Source: City of Milwaukee Legislative Reference Bureau, Milwaukee City Charter and Code of Ordinances (city.milwaukee.gov master PDFs)URL: https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/ccClerk/Ordinances/Volume-1/CH98.pdf#page=1Fetched: 10/26/2026