(A) In addition to those matters required elsewhere in this chapter to be included in the franchise agreement, it must contain the following express representations by the franchise:
(1) It accepts and agrees to all of the provisions of this chapter and any supplementary specifications as to construction or operation of the system, which the city may include in the franchise agreement;
(2) It has examined all of the provisions of this chapter and waives any claims that any provisions of this chapter are unreasonable, arbitrary, invalid or void;
(3) It recognizes the right of the city to make reasonable amendments to the franchise chapter of the City Code during the term of the franchise upon 60 days prior notice to the franchisee or without notice with respect to emergency amendments;
(4) It shall comply with all customer service standards promulgated by the FCC from time to time.
(B) To provide residents and other persons in the city with competition and choice in multichannel video service, multichannel video providers (other than cable operators and open video system operators, as those terms are defined in § 18-1) providing multichannel video service in the city shall make up to two-thirds of the channels on their system available for the carriage of programming from other video programming providers in accordance with the principles and procedures established by the Federal Communications Commission for the carriage of programming by open video system operators.
(C) The franchise agreement shall contain such further conditions or provisions as may be negotiated between the city and the franchisee, except that no such conditions or provisions shall be such as to conflict with any provision of this chapter or other law. In case of such conflict or ambiguity between any terms or provisions of the franchise agreement and this chapter, the terms of this chapter shall control.
(1993 Code, § 18-62) (Ord. passed 5-29-2001)