(A) The Village Council shall be empowered to determine, fix and regulate the charges or rates of the franchisee and from time to time to alter or change such rates.
(B) The village shall fix and regulate rates for services which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Rates for the provision of basic service to subscribers, residential or nonresidential;
(2) Rates for the provision of pay television service to subscribers;
(3) Rates for the connection and installation of services and for the downgrade or disconnection and/or reconnection of such services;
(4) Rates for nonentertainment services, such as home security, utility meter reading, data transmission, use of access channels, energy management, traffic signalization and other services that may be introduced during the term of the franchise.
(C) Initial maximum rates for services of the cable communications system shall be those delineated in a franchise agreement. Initial maximum rates shall not be increased during the period specified in a franchise agreement except as otherwise permitted by law. If construction of the cable communications system is not timely completed and activated as set forth in a franchise agreement, and an extension is not granted by the Village Council, the rate guarantee shall be extended one day for each day that construction remains incomplete and inactivated beyond the specified construction and activation period.
(D) A franchisee shall have the right to conduct promotional campaigns which permit new subscriptions to the system at lesser rates than those applicable to earlier subscribers, provided those promotional rates shall be equally available to all such new subscribers in the village.
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