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Utah Code Title 10. Utah Municipal Code § 10-18-104. Application to existing contracts

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1)(a) If before the sooner of March 1 or the effective date of the chapter,  1 the legislative body of a municipality authorized the municipality to offer or provide cable television services or public telecommunications services, each authorized service:

(i) is exempt from Part 2, Conditions for Providing Services; and

(ii) is subject to Part 3, Operational Requirements and Limitations.

(b) The exemption described in Subsection (1)(a)(i) may not apply to any cable television service or public telecommunications service authorized by the legislative body of a municipality on or after the sooner of March 1 or the effective date of this chapter.

(2) This chapter does not:

(a) invalidate any contract entered into by a municipality before the sooner of March 1 or the effective date of this chapter:

(i) for the design, construction, equipping, operation, or maintenance of facilities used or to be used by the municipality, or by a private provider under a contract with the municipality for the purpose of providing:

(A) cable television services; or

(B) public telecommunications services;

(ii) with a private provider for the use of the facilities described in Subsection (2)(a)(i) in connection with the private provider offering:

(A) cable television services; or

(B) public telecommunications services;

(iii) with a subscriber for providing:

(A) a cable television service; or

(B) a public telecommunications service; or

(iv) to obtain or secure financing for the acquisition or operation of the municipality's facilities or equipment used in connection with providing:

(A) a cable television service; or

(B) a public telecommunications service; or

(b) impair any security interest granted by a municipality as collateral for the municipality's obligations under a contract described in Subsection (2)(a).

(3)(a) A municipality meeting the one or more of the following conditions is exempt from this chapter as provided in Subsection (3)(b):

(i) a municipality that adopts or enacts a bond resolution on or before January 1, 2001, to fund facilities or equipment that the municipality uses to provide:

(A) cable television services; or

(B) public telecommunications services; or

(ii) a municipality that has operated for at least three years consecutively before the sooner of March 1 or the effective date of this chapter:

(A) a cable television service; or

(B) a public telecommunications service.

(b) A municipality described in Subsection (3)(a) is exempt from this chapter except for:

(i)Subsection 10-18-303(4);

(ii)Subsection 10-18-303(7);

(iii)Subsection 10-18-303(9);

(iv)Section 10-18-304; and

(v)Section 10-18-305.

(4) For the time period beginning on the effective date of this chapter and ending on December 31, 2001, a municipality that operated a cable television service as of January 1, 2001, is exempt from Subsection 10-18-301(1)(d).

1 Laws 2001, c. 83, effective March 13, 2001.
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