Section 67.2681

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 67

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   

  67.2681.  No separate franchise to be required by a franchise entity or political subdivision. — No franchise entity or other political subdivision of the state of Missouri except the public service commission shall either require a person holding a video service authorization to obtain a separate franchise to provide video service or otherwise impose any fee, license, gross receipt tax, or franchise requirement on the provision of any video service, or request anything of value in exchange for providing video services except as provided in sections 67.1830 to 67.1846 or in sections 67.2689 and 67.2703.  For purposes of this section, a franchise requirement includes, without limitation, any provision regulating rates charged by an entity holding a video service authorization or requiring such entity to satisfy any build-out requirements or deploy any facilities or equipment.  Except with respect to the construction of a video service network, a certificate or franchise issued to a telecommunications company to construct and operate telecommunications facilities to provide telecommunications service in the public rights-of-way shall not constitute a video service authorization for purposes of sections 67.2675 to 67.2714.

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(L. 2007 S.B. 284)