(a) The City hereby waives all fees, charges, and other compensation that may accrue, after the effective date of the waiver, to the City by a telecommunications retailer pursuant to any existing City franchise, license, or similar agreement with a telecommunications retailer during the time the City imposes the telecommunications infrastructure maintenance fee. This waiver shall be effective only during the time the infrastructure maintenance fee provided for in this chapter is subject to being lawfully imposed on the telecommunications retailer and collected by the telecommunications retailer from the customer.
(b) The City Clerk shall send a notice of the waiver by certified mail/return receipt requested to each telecommunications retailer with whom the City has a franchise.
(c) The City infrastructure maintenance fee provided for in this chapter shall become effective and imposed on the first day of the month not less than ninety days after the City provides written notice, by certified mail to each telecommunications retailer with whom the City has an existing franchise, license, or similar agreement, that the City waives all compensation under such existing franchise, license, or similar agreement during such time as the fee is subject to being lawfully imposed and collected by the retailer and remitted to the City. The infrastructure maintenance fee shall apply to gross charges billed on or after the effective date as established in the preceding sentence.
(Ord. 709. Passed 10-13-97.)