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...(A) A dispute for which a civil action is authorized under section 1332.09 of the Revised Code may first be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the procedures and subject to the conditions set forth in divisions (B) to (D) of this section. (B) Prior to initiating a civil action under section 1332.09 of the Revised Code, a person authorized to bring such an action may provide written notice of proposed arbitr...

...(A) A political subdivision subject to division (A), (B), or (C) of section 1332.04 or division (C) of section 1332.05 of the Revised Code may bring a civil action for declaratory relief in the court of common pleas in the county in which the political subdivision is located or in any county of this state in which the political subdivision is a public cable service provider. (B) A person that is or is likely to be a...

...Any right of action, remedy, or penalty under section 1332.08 or 1332.09 of the Revised Code is in addition to any right of action, remedy, or penalty otherwise available under law.

...rvice provider or cable operator for noncommercial use. (H) "Telecommunications service" has the same meaning as in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, Title I, Section 3, 110 Stat. 60, 47 U.S.C. 153. (I) "Video programming" has the same meaning as in the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," Pub. L. No. 98-549, 98 Stat. 2781, 47 U.S.C. 522. (J) "Video service" means the provision by...

...The general assembly finds and declares all of the following for the purposes of sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code: (A) Video service brings significant daily benefits to this state by providing news, education, and entertainment. (B) This state's economy will be enhanced by investment in new communications and video programming infrastructure, including fiber optic and internet protocol technol...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, no person shall provide video service in this state on or after September 24, 2007, except pursuant to a video service authorization issued under section 1332.24 of the Revised Code. Nothing in sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code equates authority to construct and operate telecommunications facilities in a public right-of-way to...

...(A)(1) In accordance with section 1332.25 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce may issue to any person, or renew, a video service authorization, which authorization confers on the person the authority, subject to sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code, to provide video service in its video service area; construct and operate a video service network in, along, across, or on public rights-of-way...

...(A) An application made to the director of commerce for a video service authorization under section 1332.24 of the Revised Code shall require and contain only the following: (1) Specification of the location of the applicant's principal place of business and the names of the applicant's principal executive officers; (2) Specification of the geographic and political boundaries of the applicant's proposed video servi...

...(A) No political subdivision shall require a video service provider to obtain from it any authority to provide video service within its boundaries. (B) Except as authorized under division (C) of this section and under sections 1332.30 and 1332.32 of the Revised Code, no political subdivision shall request anything of value from a video service provider for providing video service; impose any fee, license, or gross r...

...(A) Before it provides or sells video service to one or more subscribers within its video service area or any additional video service area under division (C) of section 1332.25 of the Revised Code, a video service provider shall provide ten days' advance, written notice of that service or additional service to the respective municipal corporation or township and to every person providing video service in all o...

...(A) Consistent with the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, Title III, Sections 303(a), 110 Stat. 61, 124, 47 U.S.C. 541(a)(3) and to prohibit discriminatory practices against a group of potential residential subscribers, no video service provider shall deny access to video service to any group of potential residential subscribers in its video service area because of the race or income of the...

...g reasonable technical solutions under commercially reasonable terms and conditions. (4) A natural disaster prevents compliance. (5) There are other factors beyond the provider's control. If an extension of time is granted, the director shall establish a new compliance deadline. If a waiver is granted, the director shall specify the requirement or requirements waived.

...(A)(1)(a) If a municipal corporation or township has three or more PEG channels programmed on January 1, 2007, the person providing those channels pursuant to a franchise, competitive video service agreement, ordinance, or resolution or otherwise shall continue to provide those PEG channels, three of which shall be on the person's basic cable service, with the additional PEG channels on the person's basic cable...

...Not later than six months after the effective date of its video service authorization, a video service provider shall carry emergency interrupt service announcements transmitted by local television broadcasters and shall transmit national, state, and local emergency interrupt service announcements as required by 47 C.F.R. 11.11 et seq. or as otherwise required by the federal communications commission.

...(A) Not sooner than forty-five nor later than sixty days after the end of each calendar quarter, a video service provider shall pay a video service provider fee to each municipal corporation and each township in which it offers video service. The fee shall be calculated quarterly by determining the provider's gross revenue for the preceding calendar quarter as described in division (B) of this section and multi...

...(A) At its sole expense and not more often than once per calendar year, a municipal corporation or township may conduct an audit for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of a video service provider's calculation of the video service provider fees it paid to the municipal corporation or township in the audit period. For the purpose of the audit, the video service provider shall make available for inspection, at...

...Nothing in sections 1332.21 to 1332.33 of the Revised Code is intended to be inconsistent with the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C. 521 to 573.

...No person shall sell or issue a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device which entitles the holder thereof, on presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the vendor or other person, money, goods, wares, or merchandise, unless each of such stamp, trading stamps, cash discount stamps, checks, tickets, coupons, or other devices has legibly printed o...

...Whoever sells or issues to a person engaged in a trade, business, or profession, a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device which entitles the holder thereof, on presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the vendor or other person, money, goods, wares, or merchandise, shall redeem them upon presentation, either in goods, wares, merchandise, or m...

...Any person engaging in a trade, business, or profession, who distributes, delivers, or presents to a person dealing with him, in consideration of an article or thing purchased, a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device entitling the holder thereof, on the presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the person issuing or selling them or from anoth...

...Sections 1333.01 to 1333.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to tickets, coupons, or other vouchers placed by a merchant or manufacturer in or upon packages of goods sold or manufactured by him if such tickets, coupons, or other vouchers are to be redeemed by such merchant or manufacturer.

...As used in sections 1333.05 to 1333.07 of the Revised Code: (A) "Theater" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge. (B) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling, or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors. (C) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating a theater in this state. (D) "Exhibit" or "exhi...

...(A) No distributor shall engage in blind bidding. (B) No distributor shall condition the granting or execution of a license agreement on a guarantee of a minimum payment to the distributor, if the exhibitor is required by the license agreement to make any payment to the distributor that is based on the attendance or the box office receipts at a theater at which the motion picture is exhibited. (C) No distributor sh...

...(A) If bids are solicited from exhibitors for the purpose of entering into a license agreement, the invitation to bid shall specify: (1) The number and length of runs to which the invitation to bid applies; (2) Whether the invitation to bid applies to a first or subsequent run; (3) The geographic area for each run; (4) The names of all exhibitors who are being given an invitation to bid; (5) The date, hour, and ...

...As used in sections 1333.11 to 1333.21 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cost to the retailer" means the invoice cost of cigarettes to the retailer, or the replacement cost of cigarettes to the retailer within thirty days prior to the date of sale, in the quantity last purchased, whichever is lower, less all trade discounts except customary discounts for cash, to which shall be added the cost of doing business by the retai...