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11-5-1 - Cable Franchise.#
A cable franchise shall be required of any cable operator who desires to provide cable services to any person or area in the City.
11-5-2 - Franchise Application.#
Any person that desires a cable franchise pursuant to this Chapter shall file an application with the City which shall include the following information: 1.
The identity of the franchise applicant, including all affiliates of the applicant.
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A description of the cable services that are or will be offered or provided by the franchise applicant over its existing or proposed facilities.
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A description of the transmission medium that will be used by the franchisee to offer or provide such cable services.
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Preliminary engineering plans, specifications and a network map of the facilities to be located within the City, all in sufficient detail to identify:
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The location and route requested for applicant's proposed telecommunications facilities.
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The location of all overhead and underground public utility, telecommunication, cable, water, sewer, drainage and irrigation and other facilities in the public way along the proposed route.
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The location(s), if any, for interconnection with the facilities of other telecommunications carriers.
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The specific trees, structures, improvements, facilities and obstructions, if any, that applicant proposes to temporarily or permanently remove or relocate.
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If applicant is proposing to install overhead facilities, evidence that surplus space is available for locating its telecommunications facilities on existing utility poles along the proposed route.
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If applicant is proposing an underground installation in existing ducts or conduits within the public ways, information in sufficient detail to identify:
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The excess capacity currently available in such ducts or conduits before installation of applicant's cable facilities;
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The excess capacity, if any, that will exist in such ducts or conduits after installation of applicant's cable facilities.
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If applicant is proposing an underground installation within new ducts or conduits to be constructed within the public ways:
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The location proposed for the new ducts or conduits;
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The excess capacity that will exist in such ducts or conduits after installation of applicant's cable facilities.
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A preliminary construction schedule and completion dates.
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A preliminary traffic control plan in accordance with the UDOT Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
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Financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles demonstrating the applicant's financial ability to construct, operate, maintain, relocate and remove the facilities.
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Information in sufficient detail to establish the applicant's technical qualifications, experience and expertise regarding the cable facilities and services described in the application.
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Information to establish that the applicant has obtained all other governmental approvals and permits to construct and operate the facilities and to offer or provide the cable services.
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Whether the applicant intends to provide telecommunications services other than cable services.
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An accurate map showing the location of any existing cable facilities in the City that applicant intends to use or lease.
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A description of the services or facilities that the applicant will offer or make available to the City and other public, educational and governmental institutions.
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A description of applicant's access and line extension policies.
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The area or areas of the City the applicant desires to serve and a schedule for build-out to the entire franchise area.
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All fees, deposits or charges required pursuant to this Title.
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Such other and further information as may be requested by the City.
11-5-3 - Determination by the City.#
Within one hundred fifty (150) days after receiving a complete application under KCC 11-5-2, the corporate authorities shall issue a written determination granting or denying the application in whole or in part, applying the following standards. If the application is denied, the written determination shall include the reasons for denial. 1.
The financial and technical ability of the applicant.
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The legal ability of the applicant.
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The capacity of the public ways to accommodate the applicant's proposed facilities.
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The capacity of the public ways to accommodate additional utility and telecommunications facilities if the franchise is granted.
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The damage or disruption, if any, of public or private facilities, improvements, service, travel or landscaping if the franchise is granted.
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The public interest in minimizing the cost and disruption of construction within the public ways.
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The service that applicant will provide to the community and region.
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The effect, if any, on public health, safety and welfare if the franchise requested is granted.
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The availability of alternate routes and/or locations for the proposed facilities.
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Applicable Federal and State telecommunications laws, regulations and policies.
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Such other factors as may demonstrate that the grant to use the public ways will serve the community interest.
11-5-4 - Agreement.#
No franchise shall be granted hereunder unless the applicant and the City have executed a written agreement setting forth the particular terms and provisions under which the franchise to occupy and use public ways of the City will be granted.
11-5-5 - Nonexclusive Grant.#
No franchise granted under this Chapter shall confer any exclusive right, privilege, license or franchise to occupy or use the public ways of the City for delivery of cable services or any other purposes.
11-5-6 - Term of Grant.#
Unless otherwise specified in a franchise agreement, a cable franchise granted hereunder shall be valid for a term of ten (10) years.
11-5-7 - Rights Granted.#
No franchise granted under this Chapter shall convey any right, title or interest in the public ways, but shall be deemed a franchise only to use and occupy the public ways for the limited purposes and term stated in the grant. Further, no franchise shall be construed as any warranty of title.
11-5-8 - Franchise Territory.#
A cable franchise granted under this Chapter shall be limited to the specific geographic area of the City to be served by the franchise grantee, and the specific public ways necessary to serve such areas.
11-5-9 - Location of Facilities.#
Unless otherwise specified in a franchise agreement, all facilities shall be constructed, installed and located in accordance with the following terms and conditions: 1.
Cable facilities shall be installed within an existing underground duct or conduit whenever excess capacity exists within such facility.
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A franchisee with permission to install overhead facilities shall install its cable facilities on pole attachments to existing poles only, and then only if surplus space is available.
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Whenever any existing electric utilities, cable facilities or telecommunications facilities are located underground within a public way of the City, a franchisee with permission to occupy the same public way must also locate its cable facilities underground.
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Whenever any new or existing electric utilities, cable facilities or telecommunications facilities are located or relocated underground within a public way of the City, a grantee that currently occupies the same public way shall relocate its facilities underground within a reasonable period of time, which shall not be later than the end of the grant term. Absent extraordinary circumstances or undue hardship as determined by the City Engineer, such relocation shall be made concurrently to minimize the disruption of the public ways.
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Whenever new cable facilities will exhaust the capacity of a public street or utility easement to reasonably accommodate future telecommunications carriers or facilities, the grantee shall provide additional ducts, conduits, manholes and other facilities for nondiscriminatory access to future carriers.
11-5-10 - Construction Permits.#
All franchisees are required to obtain construction permits for cable facilities as required in KCC 11-7 provided, however, that nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit the City and a franchisee from agreeing to alternative plan review, permit and construction procedures in a franchise agreement, provided such alternative procedures provide substantially equivalent safeguards for responsible construction practices.
11-5-11 - Compensation to City.#
Each franchise granted under this Chapter is subject to the City's right, which is expressly reserved, annually to fix a fair and reasonable compensation to be paid for the property rights granted to the franchisee; provided, nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit the City and a franchisee from agreeing to the compensation to be paid.
11-5-12 - Nondiscrimination.#
A franchisee shall make its cable service available to any customer within its franchise area who shall request such service, without discrimination as to the terms, conditions, rates or charges for grantee's services, provided, however, that nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit a franchisee from making any reasonable classifications among differently situated customers.
11-5-13 - Service to the City.#
A franchisee shall make its cable services available to the City at its most favorable rate for similarly situated users, unless otherwise provided in a license or franchise agreement.
11-5-14 - Amendment of Grant.#
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A new franchise application and grant shall be required of any cable operator that desires to extend its franchise territory or to locate its cable facilities in public ways of the City which are not included in a franchise previously granted under this Title.
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If ordered by the City to locate or relocate its cable facilities in public ways not included in a previously granted franchise, the City shall grant a franchise amendment without further application.
11-5-15 - Renewal Applications.#
Franchise renewal applications shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Cable Act.
11-5-16 - Sale of Cable System.#
The sale or transfer of any Cable System shall be transacted in accordance with the provisions of the Cable Act.
11-5-17 - Obligation to Cure as Condition of Renewal.#
No franchise shall be renewed until any ongoing violations or defaults in the grantee's performance of the franchise agreement, or of the requirements of this Title, has been cured, or a plan detailing the corrective action to be taken by the grantee has been approved by the City.