Any franchise issued hereunder may after Fiscal Court hearing be revoked, altered or suspended by the Fiscal Court as it deems necessary on any of the following grounds:
(A) For willful faults or misleading statements in or material omissions from any application;
(B) For failure to file and maintain the insurance and bonds required under this chapter;
(C) For repeated failure, as determined by the Fiscal Court, to maintain signal quality;
(D) For any sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of its permits without consent of the Fiscal Court;
(E) For an inability to provide CATV service to subscribers at the rate authorized by the Fiscal Court;
(F) For failure to properly provide service to subscribers or to the county;
(G) For violation of the terms of its franchise or the agreement or ordinance awarding the same or of this chapter;
(H) The franchisee’s acts or omissions which fail to comply with any term or condition of this chapter and shall within 30 days following written demand by Fiscal Court to effect the compliance fail or refuse to do so;
(I) The franchisee becomes insolvent or unable or unwilling or fails to pay its debts as those debts become due, or a custodian, receiver, trustee or agent appointed or authorized to do so is appointed or takes charge of less than substantially all or substantially all of the property of the franchisee for the purpose of enforcing any lien, whether judicial, execution or otherwise, is the subject debtor of an order for relief entered by a bankruptcy court or all or part of a franchisee’s facilities be sold under an instrument to secure a debt and are not redeemed by franchisee within 30 days from the sale;
(J) The franchisee attempts to or practices any fraud or deceit on its conduct or relations under the franchise; and
(K) No revocation shall be effective until the Fiscal Court shall have adopted an ordinance setting forth the cause and reasons for the revocation and the effective date thereof, which ordinance shall not be adopted without 30 days’ prior notice thereof to the franchisee and the franchisee given full opportunity to be heard upon the proposed adoption of the ordinance.
(Ord. 400.450.1, passed 10-17-1980)