(a) Grant. The Village hereby grants to the permittee a non-exclusive and revocable permit to make reasonable and lawful use of the streets and rights-of-way within the Village, to construct, operate, maintain, reconstruct and rebuild a system within the Village for the purposes of delivering telecommunications services and other utilities to residents, businesses or other premises within the Village and elsewhere, subject to the conditions, terms and provisions contained in this chapter and in any prior utility or use agreements entered into with regard to any such properties. Subject to the terms of this chapter, this chapter shall constitute a non-exclusive right to make reasonable use of the streets, identified below, as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the terms of this chapter in the Village. The Village reserves the right to grant similar uses, licenses, franchises, permits or any other rights with regard to the public rights-of-way or any other Municipal interest, to any other person. The rights granted under this chapter are also expressly subject to any rights granted previously by the Village to any person. The granting of a permit issued under this chapter may also be cause for the revocation of prior permits granted to the permittee, as specified in such prior permits.
(b) Permit Area. The permittee is authorized by this chapter to encroach with conduit, telecommunications cable (fiber optics) and other telecommunications and/or utility facilities.
(c) Acceptance and Filing Fee. The permittee shall pay to the Village an acceptance fee based on a formula of one dollar ($1.00) per linear foot of streets traversed and one thousand dollars ($1,000) per underground public street crossing, to cover costs incurred by the Village in reviewing, the application, enforcing the provisions of this chapter and granting a permit. The permittee shall also be subject to a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for filing said permit with the Clerk of Council of the Village.
(d) Use of Streets and Rights-of-Way. Subject to the Village's supervision and control, the permittee may erect, install, construct, repair, replace, reconstruct, and retain in, over, under, upon, across and along the streets and rights-of-way and public easements within the permit area telecommunications and/or other utility systems for the sole purpose of providing telecommunications and/or other utility services within the Village. The permittee shall comply with all applicable Federal, State and local construction codes, laws, ordinances, regulations and procedures now in effect or enacted hereafter. The permittee, through the permit, is granted extensive and valuable rights to operate its system for profit or otherwise, using the Village's rights-of-way and streets within the permit area, all in compliance with all applicable Federal, State and local construction codes, laws, ordinances, regulations and procedures now in effect or enacted hereafter.
(e) Force and Effect. The revocable permit shall be of no force and effect until the following requirements have been complied with:
(1) The permittee shall have filed a written acceptance of the terms and conditions of the permit, together with the acceptance fee, calculated pursuant to the system footage and street crossings specified. Said acceptance shall be in substantially the following form:
DATE:
We, the undersigned, do hereby accept all of the terms and conditions recited in Ordinance No. _______, and contained in this permit. The name and address of our representative to whom notices shall be sent is as follows:
The proposed system design is attached here as Exhibit "A". The streets where construction will occur are listed in attached Exhibit "B".
Signed by:
(Permittee)
By:
(Name of Officer)
(2) The permittee shall have all insurance policies and certificates herein recited filed with the Clerk-Treasurer, who shall notify the Building Inspector, in writing, that such policies and certificates are acceptable to the Village.
(3) The permittee shall file a copy of the appropriate authorization from the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Ohio with the Building Inspector; and
(4) The Building Inspector shall have certified, in writing, to the Clerk of Council, that the foregoing requirements have been met.
(f) Nonexclusivity of Permit. A permit issued under this chapter shall be nonexclusive, and subject to all prior rights, interests, easements or licenses granted by the Village or its predecessors to any person to use any property, right-of-way, easement, right, interest or license for any purpose whatsoever, including the right of the Village to use the same for any purpose it deems fit, including the same or similar purposes allowed to the permittee hereunder. The Village may at any time grant authorization to use the streets and rights-of-way for any purpose as the Village deems appropriate.
(g) Police Powers. The permittee's rights hereunder are subject to the police powers of the Village to adopt and enforce ordinances necessary to the safety, health and welfare of the public, and the permittee agrees to comply with all applicable laws and ordinances enacted, or hereafter enacted, by the Village or any other legally-constituted governmental unit having lawful jurisdiction over the subject matter hereof. The Village reserves the right to exercise its police powers, notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, and any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any other present or future lawful exercise of the Village's police powers shall be resolved in favor of the latter.
(h) PUCO Authorization. The permittee shall obtain, prior to the beginning of any construction, authority from the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Ohio, to provide telecommunications services and/or other utilities, if the same is required by law.
(i) Cable Operators Subject to Franchise. The permittee shall not provide any additional services without first obtaining a separate permit from the Village, or amending the permit issued hereunder, and shall not allow the use of its system for content services by itself, its affiliates or any service provider (including video dial tone and cable television), unless the service provider has been granted a permit or franchise for such service by the Village. With respect to cable television, the permittee shall neither operate as a cable operator, as that term is defined in the Cable Act, 47 U.S.C. 522(4), nor provide or offer to provide cable service, as that term is defined in the Cable Act, 47 U.S.C. 522(5), under this chapter without first obtaining a franchise to do so. The permittee shall not provide or offer to provide any other video and/or audio services offered by cable operators to residential end users under this chapter without first obtaining a franchise to do so. The permittee shall not provide or offer to provide any other video and/or audio services offered by cable operators to residential end users under this chapter without first obtaining a franchise to do so. A permit issued hereunder is granted to the permittee solely for the purpose of directly serving its end-user customers and common carriers.
(Ord. 98-10-11. Passed 10-14-98.)