A. For the period beginning on the date an installation permit is issued and ending on the date the permitted work is accepted, the City may perform a safety review of construction, reconstruction or installation of all small wireless facilities as it deems necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter, the Code, or other telecommunications laws. All City plans, reviews, inspections, standards, and other rights and actions related to provider’s improvements are for City’s sole and exclusive benefit and neither provider nor any other person may rely on the City’s safety reviews or have any rights related to the reviews. The preceding sentence does not prevent provider from relying on consents, permits, or approvals the City may grant based on City’s plans, reviews, and inspections. As a condition of obtaining the licenses authorized by this chapter, the provider grants the City the right to access the provider’s small wireless facilities. Except for emergencies, this right of access is limited to dates and times agreed to by the parties and to City inspectors, other employees, contractors, or officers acting within their legal authority.

B. Consistent with State law, the City may recover the City’s costs incurred to perform such installation safety reviews as the City deems necessary at the hourly rate of $150.00 per hour per person. However, in no event will the safety review exceed the total number of hours listed in the table below for each site installation permit. The City will submit an invoice to the provider for each site installation safety review that shows the number of hours billed in increments of one-quarter hour (15 minutes) for the time spent per person on site for each review; except that a flat rate of one-quarter hour (15 minutes) will be charged for travel to and from each site for each review, and a flat rate of one hour will be charged for a provider’s failure to permit access to the facilities at the agreed time and date (a no-show). The provider must pay any such invoice within 30 calendar days of the invoice date.

C. Consistent with State law and to fully recover its costs, the City may increase the hourly rate charged every two years by the same percentage reflected by the Metropolitan Phoenix Consumer Price Index for the preceding two years. (Ord. No. G-6407, 2018)