All rights and privileges granted in a franchise agreement are subject to the police powers of the city and its rights under applicable laws and regulations to exercise its governmental powers to their full extent and to regulate a grantee and the construction, operation and maintenance of the grantee's cable system, including, but not limited to, the right to adopt, amend, and enforce ordinances and regulations as the city shall find necessary in the exercise of its police powers, the right to adopt and enforce applicable zoning, building, permitting and safety ordinances and regulations, the right to adopt and enforce ordinances and regulations relating to equal employment opportunities, and the right to adopt and enforce ordinances and regulations containing right-of-way, telecommunications, utility and cable television consumer protection and service standards and rate regulation provisions, except to the extent that an exercise of such powers would impair the obligations of a grantee's franchise agreement as prohibited by Article I, Section 10, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
(Ord. 2015-20, passed 11-10-2015)