Ohio Revised Code Title XIII. Commercial Transactions § 1332.23

(B)(1)(a) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, a person that offers service under a franchise 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 agreement or its earlier termination pursuant to the terms and conditions of the franchise or agreement.  With respect to such a franchise or competitive video service agreement but only for the time the franchise or agreement is in effect as provided under divisions (B)(1)(a) and (2) of this section, the authority of a township under sections 505.90 to 505.92 of the Revised Code, as those sections existed on the day before their repeal by Am. Sub. S.B. 117 of the 127th general assembly, shall continue, notwithstanding their repeal by that act.

(b) Any person that is providing video service in this state on September 24, 2007, pursuant to the terms and conditions of an expired franchise or competitive video service agreement, or is otherwise providing video service on that date other than as described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section, has ninety days beginning on September 24, 2007, to file an application for a video service authorization under section 1332.25 of the Revised Code.

(a) Not sooner than one hundred twenty days before the expiration or termination of the person's franchise or competitive video service agreement for that area in accordance with its terms and conditions;

(b) After any other person provides or sells video service in that area;

(c) After receiving notice pursuant to division (A) of section 1332.27 of the Revised Code;

(d) After a determination by the federal communications commission under 47 C.F.R. 76.907 that the person is subject in that area to effective competition as defined in 47 C.F.R. 76.905(b).

Upon the effective date of a video service authorization obtained by the person under division (B)(2) of this section, the franchise or competitive video service agreement terminates, and no provision of that franchise or agreement is enforceable.