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ORDINANCE MO. 5:L3
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 428. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A CABLE
TELEVISION FRANCHISE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STILINATER DONS ORDAINS
WION 1. AIHEB)INq. Section 1, Grant of Authority, of Ordinance No.
428, An Ordinance Granting a Cable Television Franchise, is hereby amended
to seduce the duration of the Franchise from twenty (20) to fifteen (15)
years.
SECTION 2. AMENDING.
following new Section 5:
SECTION 5. INTERCONNECTION REQUIRED. Subject to obtaining inter-
connection approval from adjoining network franchisors and operators, the
franchisee shall inter -Connect its broadband tele-communications network with
all other broadband telecommunications networks serving those municipalities
and School Districts that adjoin the City and Independent School District
No. 834 upon request of the City. In addition, the franchisee shall make
diligent effort to inter -connect its network with all other networks in the
seven -county metropolitan Twin City area.
SECTION 3. AMBImING, Ordinance No. 428 is hereby amended to add the
following new Section 6:
fCFION 6. O ALITE OF RECEPTION. The franchisee shall produce a
picture upon any subscriber's television screeh inblack a white or cocelor
(provided the subscriber's television set is capable of producing
picture) that is undistorted and reasonably free from ghost images, without
visual material degradation in quality within the limitations imposed by the
technical state of the art, provided that the subscriber's television receiver
is in good repair and properly adjusted. The network shall transmit or
distribute signals of adequate strength to produce good pictures with good
sound to all subecribsrs having television receivers in good repair, without
causing objectionable cross -modulation in the cables or interfering with other
electrical or electronic networks or with the reception of other television or
radio receivers in the area not connected to the network.
SECTION 4. AMINDINS. Ordinance No. 428 is hereby amended to add the
following new Section 7:
DICTION 7. EXPANSION OF NEAIORE AND EIGHT OF AI0NDMINT RESERVED TO CITZ.
The franchisee recognises the right of the City to requestthe expansion of the
network in physical area or technological capabilities and to make reasonable
amendments to this Ordinance during the term of the franchise upon sixty (60)
days prior notice to the franchisee or without notice in the case of emergency
amendments.
SECTION 5. MENDING. Section 6, Charges Imposed by .the City, of Ordinance
No. 428, is hereby amended to reduce the annual gross revenue charge from 5%
to 3%.
SECTION 6. RENUMBERING. Sections 5 through 10 of ordinance No. 428 are hereby
renumbered as Sections a through 13.
SECTION 7. COST OF PUBLICATION. All of the costs for the publication of the
Ordinance shall be paid for by the Franchisee.
Ordinance No. 428 is hereby amended to add the
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ORDINANCE NO. 513 - continued
$ACTION 8. EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after a Public Nearing, adoption by a four -fifths majority of the City
council, publication according to LBW. and approval of the Minnesota Commission
on Cable Communications.
Passed by the City Council this 7th day of May, 1974.
Published: May 13, 1974
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