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any other town ordinance licensing or regulating business within such areas.
Full cable telecommunications service
shall mean all cable telecommunications services.
Grantee
or
franchisee
or
company
shall mean the person, firm, or corporation to whom a franchise, as
defined herein, is granted by the town board under this article, and the lawful successor, transferee or assignee
of said person, firm, or corporation.
Gross revenues
shall mean any and all compensation received by grantee or any firm in which grantee
has part ownership as a result of the exercise of the franchise granted hereunder excluding any privilege or use
taxes. "Gross revenues" include by way of illustration, but are not limited to, regular subscriber service fees,
installation fees, disconnect and reconnect fees, pay TV, leased channel revenues, advertising revenues,
converter and remote control rental revenues, or any other income from the system.
Initial service area
shall mean that geographical area within the incorporated limits of the town as of the
date of acceptance of a franchise pursuant to this article.
Person
shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind.
Service package
or
tier of service
shall mean one or more communications channels or services which
are offered as a unit by the grantee to subscribers and for which a separately identifiable rate or charge is made.
Street
shall mean the surface of and the space above and below any publicly owned or maintained
property or right-of-way, street, road, highway, freeway, land, path, alley, court, sidewalk, parkway or drive,
now or hereafter existing as such within the town.
Subscriber
shall mean any person or entity lawfully receiving any portion of the cable
telecommunications service of a grantee pursuant to this article.
Town
shall mean the Town of Morrisville or the area within the present and future territorial town limits
of the town and such territory outside of the town over which the town has jurisdiction or control by virtue of
any law.
Town board
shall mean the Town Board of the Town of Morrisville, North Carolina, or its designee.
(Ord. No. 95-64, § I, 8-14-95)
Sec. 56-37. Application fee and application bond.
(a)
Application fee.
Applicants for a franchise hereunder shall pay a nonrefundable "Application
Fee" to the Town of Morrisville of $3,000.00, which sum shall be due and payable to the town under
submission to the town of an application for a franchise.
(b) The town board shall review the applicants legal, character, financial, technical, and other
qualifications and the adequacy and feasibility of its construction arrangements and its compliance with the
terms of this article. If the town board finds the application is in compliance with this article and is satisfied
with the ability of the applicant to perform and is satisfied with the legal, character, financial and technical