(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION. The business of transmission and distribution of television signals by means of cable, wire, or conduit to any location, firm, person, or corporation located in the city, or the sale of those television signals or the right to receive them to any firm, person, or corporation within the city.
FRANCHISE. The right, license, and authority to operate, install, and maintain a community antenna television system within the city. This right, license, and authority shall be created and exist only by virtue of an ordinance duly adopted by the city.
(B) No person, firm, or corporation shall install, maintain, or operate a community antenna television system in the city without first having obtained a franchise therefor, as hereinabove defined, in accordance with the procedure hereinafter set forth, from the city; nor shall any person, firm, or corporation furnish community antenna television service without first having obtained such a franchise.
(C) No person shall use, occupy, or traverse the city’s streets, alleys, lanes, avenues, boulevards, sidewalks, bridges, viaducts, rights-of-way, or any other public place or public way within the city, or any extensions thereof or additions thereto, whether on, above, or under the surface of the ground, for the purpose of installing, maintaining, or operating community antenna television or facilities therefor or for the purpose of furnishing community antenna television service until that person, firm, or corporation has first obtained a franchise therefor from the city.
(D) (1) No person shall furnish or contract to furnish, labor, services, materials, or operation of community antenna television until after the person, firm, or corporation to or for whom the labor, services, materials, or supplies are to be furnished has obtained the franchise required by this section.
(2) No person shall furnish or contract to furnish labor, services, materials, or supplies for connecting any television receiving set to any community antenna television system, or for repairing, maintaining, or improving any such connection, until after that system is authorized to operate under a franchise as required by this section.
(3) No person shall buy or contract to buy any television signals or the right to receive any television signals until the person selling or contracting to sell those television signals or the right to receive those television signals has first obtained and has the franchise required by this section. Sales and contracts made or entered into in violation of this subsection or any other part of this section shall be for all purposes whatsoever absolutely null and void.
(E) The City Council may, in its discretion, by ordinance, issue nonexclusive revocable franchises for the purpose of operating community antenna television systems within the city. The franchise ordinances shall set forth appropriate conditions governing the operating of those systems, the quality of service to be rendered, the rates and fees to be charged for those services to customers within the city, the franchise fee to be paid by the grantee of this right to the city for this privilege, the service area of the grantee of the franchise, and any other matters deemed to be appropriate by the City Council.
(F) The City Council shall, in all cases, have the complete and absolute right to revoke the franchise at any time, upon 30 days’ notice in writing to the grantee; provided, however, that the reasons for revocation shall be furnished in writing to the grantee and the grantee shall have the right to be heard publicly prior to the revocation of the franchise. The franchise ordinance shall set forth, in detail, the method and procedure of removal of cable antenna television facilities upon revocation of the franchise, and, among other things, shall set forth insurance requirements and provide other terms and conditions relative to the removal.