FINAL ORDINANCE NO. 97-050 - Laserfiche WebLink

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS 1. Short Title. This Franchise Ordinance shall be known and cited as the Cable Franchise Ordinance. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this Franchise, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein, When not inconsistent with the context, words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. The word "may" is directory and discretionary and not mandatory. a. "Basic Cable Service" means any service tier which includes the lawful retransmission of local television broadcast signals and any public, educational, and governmental access programming required by the Franchise to be carried on the basic tier, Basic Cable Service as defined herein shall not be inconsistent with 47 U.S.C. § 543(b)(7). b. "City" means City of Lake Elmo, a municipal corporation, in the State of Minnesota, acting by and through its City Council, or its lawfully appointed designee. G. "Gifu Council" means the governing body of the City. d. "Cable Service" or "Service" means "Cable Service" as defined by Minn. Stat. § 238.01 et seq. and 47 U.S.0 § 521 et seq., as may be amended from time to time, including cable modem service to the extent consistent with federal law, but also including Institutional Network services. e. "Cable System" or "System" means a network or facility consisting of antennas, fiber optic cables, transmitters and receivers, cables and amplifiers, towers, microwave transmission links, cablecasting studios, power supplies, pedestals, and any other conductors, converters, equipment or other facilities, designed and constructed for the purpose of producing, receiving, amplifying, storing, processing, switching, or distributing audio, video, or data signals, including digital or other forms of electronic signals, to customers within the City. System as defined herein shall not be inconsistent with the definitions set forth in Minn. Stat. § 238.02, subd. 3 and 47 U.S.C. § 522(7). f. "Class IV Cable Channel" means a signaling path provided by a Cable System to transmit signals of any type from a Subscriber terminal to another point in the System.