<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 50-32. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Applicant</span> means any person submitting an application to the county for a franchise to operate
               a CATV system under the terms and conditions set forth by the board of commissioners.
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               <span class="ital">Basic service tier</span> means the tier to which subscription is required for access to any other tier of
               service. As provided by the cable act, the basic service tier includes all local broadcast
               signals carried on grantee's system and all public, educational and governmental (PEG)
               signals carried on the grantee's system, and such additional signals or services which
               the grantee may offer consistent with the cable act and FCC regulations.
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               <span class="ital">Cable communications act</span> and <span class="ital">cable act</span> mean the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 as amended by the Cable Television
               Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 as it may be further amended or succeeded.
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               <span class="ital">CATV</span> means a community antenna television system as hereinafter defined.
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               <span class="ital">Channel</span> means a band of frequencies, six megahertz wide in the electro-magnetic spectrum
               which is capable of carrying either one audio-video television signal or a number
               of nonvideo signals.
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               <span class="ital">Chief finance officer</span> means the finance officer of the county.
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               <span class="ital">Community antenna television system</span> and <span class="ital">CATV system</span> mean a system of antennas, coaxial cables, wires, wave guides, or other conductors,
               equipment or facility designed, constructed or used primarily for the interception
               and receipt of television, radio or other electronic signals, directly or indirectly
               off the air, and the distribution or transmission of such signals by means of cables
               or other similar devices to subscribers, including the capability for two-way communications.
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               <span class="ital">County attorney</span> means the chief legal officer of the county.
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               <span class="ital">County manager</span> means the chief administrative officer of the county or his designee.
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               <span class="ital">Educational access channel</span> means any channel specifically designated for use by local public and private school
               authorities.
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               <span class="ital">Federal Communications Commission</span> and <span class="ital">FCC</span> mean that agency as constituted by the United States Congress or any successor agency.
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               <span class="ital">Franchise</span> means the permission, license, franchise or authority given under this article to
               conduct and operate a community antenna television system in the county.
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               <span class="ital">Grantee</span> means the person to whom a franchise is granted by the board of commissioners under
               this article or anyone who succeeds the person in accordance with the provisions of
               the franchise.
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               <span class="ital">Gross revenues</span> means any and all compensation and other compensation in any form whatsoever received
               by the grantee pursuant to its exercise of the franchise granted to it, and any contributing
               grant or subsidy, including connect, disconnect and installation fees, received directly
               or indirectly by the grantee from subscribers or users within the county; except gross
               receipts shall not include any taxes on services furnished by the grantee imposed
               directly on any subscriber or user by any state, city or other governmental unit and
               collected by the grantee on behalf of such governmental unit.
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               <span class="ital">Local government access channels</span> means channels on the CATV system which are placed on both the basic service and
               the tier service and reserved by this article for use by the county.
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               <span class="ital">Must-carry signals</span> means the cable act requirements that cable television operators carry certain local
               commercial broadcast television stations and noncommercial television stations on
               their systems.
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               <span class="ital">Pay television</span> means the delivery over the CATV system of video signals in intelligible form to
               residential subscribers for a fee or charge (over and above the charge for basic service)
               on a per-program or per-channel basis.
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               <span class="ital">Public access channels</span> means channels on the CATV system specifically designated as noncommercial, public
               access channels.
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               <span class="ital">Street</span> and <span class="ital">road</span> mean the surface of and the space above and below any public street, road, highway,
               freeway, lane, path, public way, or place, alley, court, boulevard, parkway, drive
               or other easement held by the state or any of its municipal corporations or political
               subdivisions for the purpose of public travel and shall include other easements or
               rights-of-way as shall be held by the state or any of its municipal corporations or
               political subdivisions existing within the unincorporated areas of the county to which
               the grantee may become entitled to use for the purpose of installing or transmitting
               CATV system transmissions over poles, wires, cables, conductors, ducts, conduits,
               vaults, manholes, amplifiers, appliances, attachments and other property as may be
               ordinarily necessary and pertinent to a CATV system.
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               <span class="ital">Subscriber</span> means any person or entity lawfully receiving for any purpose the CATV service of
               the grantee in this article.
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               (Code 1978, Â§ 6-111)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="11337">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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