A. If permissible under state and federal law, all video service providers shall provide at no initial or recurring charge the basic service tier of video service to one outlet and one receiving device at each building occupied by the city that is not more than 200 feet from the nearest technically and commercially feasible point of connection on the video service network. The city shall designate the building in writing to the video service provider.

B. A video service provider shall provide channel capacity to transmit programming over which the video service provider exercises no editorial control except as authorized by 47 U.S.C. Section 531(e). At the city’s election, the channel capacity shall be limited to one of the following:

C. Unless specifically preempted by state or federal law, none of the annual fair market value of any channel capacity provided pursuant to subsection (B) of this section may be offset against the license fee set forth in MCC 5.20.130.

D. A video service provider shall regularly display an unobtrusive logo or other suitable identifier of the video service provider on public, educational of governmental access channels.

E. A video service provider shall pay all costs and expenses to provide, maintain and operate facilities and equipment of the video service network, including facilities and equipment for signal carriage, processing, reformatting and interconnection for all of the following: (1) to connect the video service network or cable system, as it may be relocated from time to time, to transmit programming to and from existing locations of public, educational or governmental access facilities and to allow monitoring of access programming at the facilities; and (2) to transmit public, educational and governmental access channels to subscribers with the same prevailing quality, functionality and identification as other channels. [Ord. 19-14 § 1; Res. 19-59; Code 2004 § 20-14.]