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SECTION 6. ACCESS CHANNEL(S) PROVISIONS 1. Public. Educational and Government Access. a. City or its designee is hereby designated to operate, administer, promote, and manage access (public, education, and government programming) (hereinafter "PEG access") programming on the Cable System. b. Grantee shall dedicate 12 channel(s) for PEG access and community programming use in accordance with the Proposal. All residential Subscribers who receive all or any part of the total services offered on the System shall be eligible to receive such channels at no additional charge. The channel(s) shall be activated upon the effective date of this Franchise and thereafter maintained. City may rename, reprogram, or otherwise change the use of these channels in its sole discretion, provided such use is non-commercial, lawful, and retains the general purpose of the provision of community programming. Nothing herein shall diminish the City's rights to secure additional channels pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 238.084, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference. City shall provide ninety (90) days prior written notice to Grantee of City's intent to activate access channels. c. Each public and government access channel(s) required by this Section shall retain the channel designation/number it had as of the commencement of this Franchise term. • Grantee may not move or otherwise change the channel number or location of any public or government access or community program channel without the written approval of the City or its designee. Upon six (6) months notice to City, any other access channel may be moved by Grantee, but in no event more than once every two (2) years unless otherwise allowed by City, provided Grantee pays all reasonable costs or expenses arising out of the channel move including, but not limited to, equipment necessary to effect the change at the programmer's production or receiving facility (school frequency routing equipment, etc.), signage, letterhead, business cards, and reasonable marketing or other constituency notification costs. In any event, those access channels carried on the universal service tier pursuant to the MOU shall remain on the universal service tier. This paragraph shall not apply to Regional Channel 6. 2. Charges for Use. Channel time and playback of prerecorded programming on the PEG access and community program channel(s) must be provided without charge to City and the public. 17