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...nship trustees of a township may issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The bonds shall be issued in the manner provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code and pursuant to this chapter. All moneys raised by the issuance of bonds under this section, after payment of the costs of issuance and financing costs, shall be used exclusively for the acquisition of agricultural ...

...als, lease payments, or tolls; (d) Any underlying public obligation; (e) The proceedings and remedies for the collection of the taxes, special assessments, rates, charges, rentals, lease payments, or tolls, or payments by an obligor. (2) No such action shall be commenced except upon determination of its necessity by the taxing authority or other authority empowered to adopt the legislation or order for the issuanc...

...Whoever violates division (C) of section 133.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... (A) "Applicable generally accepted accounting principles" means accounting principles and standards set forth in all applicable pronouncements of the governmental accounting standards board. (B) "Cable service," "cable system," "franchise," and "franchising authority" have the same meanings as in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, Title III, Sections 301(a) and 302 (b)(2), 110 Stat. 114, 124...

...on in the provision in this state of cable service over a cable system, consistent with the procompetitive policies of the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56, 47 U.S.C.A. 151, for the purposes of providing the widest possible diversity of entertainment, information, and news sources to the general public; advancing the unfettered exercise of rights under the first amendment to the Uni...

...cable service over a cable system by a municipal corporation does or does not constitute a public utility pursuant to Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution. (B) Nothing in sections 1332.01 to 1332.10 of the Revised Code confers authority on a political subdivision of this state to own, lease, or operate a cable system or to provide cable service over a cable system; rather, that authority, if any, is as othe...

...ranchise fees, permit fees, pole attachment fees, or the equivalent of any such fees; (d) Require from a person providing video service within the jurisdiction of the political subdivision any direct or in-kind charge or a payment of any kind in exchange for PEG channel programming or other content produced by the political subdivision or by an entity created by or partially supported by the political subdivis...

...nce or resolution shall not take effect until submitted to the electors and approved by a majority of those voting on it. (3) Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section apply only with respect to the first time an ordinance or resolution described, respectively, in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is considered or enacted, respectively, by a legislative authority, and a legislative authority need not comply with...

...e Revised Code concerning the establishment or maintenance of the special fund. (B) A political subdivision of this state that is a public cable service provider shall prepare and publish, on or before the first day of June of each year for the prior calendar year, an annual report on its cable system and the provision of cable service over that cable system. The report shall be substantially in accordance with ful...

...r perform any regulation, rule, requirement, or restriction that is the subject of the violation, and entitles any such other cable service provider to equivalent treatment, right, or benefit.

... The notice shall describe with reasonable specificity the issues that would be the subject of the civil action. The issues shall be submitted to arbitration only if each person receiving such a notice of proposed arbitration gives its written consent not later than seven days after the date of receipt of the notice. (C) Arbitration under this section shall be conducted and decided by a panel of three arbitrators in...

...a person that provides, or has filed a pending application to provide, within the jurisdiction of the political subdivision, cable service over a cable system, and includes any other political subdivision in which such allegedly noncomplying political subdivision is, or has filed a pending application to become, a public cable service provider. (C)(1) If an arbitration opinion under section 1332.08 of the Revised Co...

...on, remedy, or penalty otherwise available under law.

...8 Stat. 2780, 2781, 47 U.S.C. 522, as amended by the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56. (D) "Competitive video service agreement" means any agreement, memorandum of understanding, or other document that provides or has the effect of providing, whether or not as a franchise, authorization by a municipal corporation or township for the provision of video service within its boundaries...

...ing consumer access to robust and reliable broadband products and services are important, statewide concerns. (D) To date, there has been only minimal competitive entry by telephone companies into the facilities-based video programming market in this state, in part, because local franchise requirements may present barriers to entry. (E) Increased competition in the provision of video service will provide new a...

...hise or competitive video service agreement in effect on September 24, 2007, may continue on and after that date to provide service within the franchise area or the respective municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township pursuant to the terms and conditions of the franchise or agreement. However, no such franchise or agreement shall be renewed or extended beyond the existing term of the franchise or agr...

...5, division (C) or (D) of section 1332.26, division (A), (B), or (C) of section 1332.27, division (A) of section 1332.28, division (A) or (B) of section 1332.29, or section 1332.30 or 1332.31 of the Revised Code, or complaints concerning any such violation or failure. Except as provided in this section, the director has no authority to regulate video service in this state, including, but not limited to, the ra...

...this division shall be deposited to the credit of the video service authorization fund in the state treasury, which is hereby created, to be used by the department of commerce in carrying out its duties under sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code. (F)(1) No video service provider shall identify or make reference to an application fee under division (E) of this section on any subscriber bill or in conjuncti...

...he provider shall give the subscriber a credit in the amount of the cost of each such day's video service as would be billed to the subscriber. (3) Upon a report by a subscriber of a service interruption and if the interruption is not caused by the video service provider and lasts for more than twenty-four consecutive hours, the provider shall give the subscriber, for each hour of service interruption, a credit in t...

... a successor. Within ten days after completing the transfer, the provider shall provide written notice to the respective municipal corporation or township. The transfer is not valid until the date that the successor files a complete affidavit with the director of commerce containing the information specified in division (A) of section 1332.25 of the Revised Code. The director has no authority to act upon the no...

...(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...

...s to video service to at least: (a) Twenty-five per cent of the households in its video service area within two years after the date it began providing video service in that area; (b) Fifty per cent of the households in its video service area within five years after the date it began providing video service in that area, except that a video service provider need not meet that fifty per cent requirement until ...

...which shall be on the person's basic cable service, with the additional PEG channels on the person's basic cable service or on any service tier viewed by more than fifty per cent of the subscribers in the video service area. Any such additional channel may be reclaimed if it is not substantially utilized. For the purpose of divisions (A)(1)(a) and (B)(2) of this section, a PEG channel is "not substantially util...

...e 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.

...y 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 multiplying the result by the percentage specified in division (C)(1)(a) or (b) of this section. (B) Gross revenue shall be computed ...