[Ord. 724, 5/19/1993,
§ 1]
This Part shall be known and may be cited as the "Borough of
Stroudsburg Community Antenna Television Franchise Fee Ordinance."
[Ord. 724, 5/19/1993,
§ 2]
The Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
The governing body of the Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe
County, Pennsylvania.
An arrangement or combination of apparatus whereby television
signals broadcast over the air are received at one or more towers,
antennas, satellites or other devices from television stations licensed
by the Federal Communications Commission and other information sources
and which, for a consideration, are transmitted by means of a coaxial
cable, fiber optic cable or other suitable device to television receiving
sets or subscribers to such service.
The governing body of the Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe
County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 724, 5/19/1993,
§ 3]
It is hereby levied and imposed upon the cable company a franchise
fee of 5% of the cable company gross revenues derived from connections
within the Borough of Stroudsburg.
[Ord. 724, 5/19/1993,
§ 4]
The company shall annually pay a fee to the Borough during the
life of this Part. Said fee to be 5% of the gross annual receipts
of the company arising within the Borough from monthly subscriber
service charges; said fee being for the regulation and privilege of
using the streets and alleys of the Borough for the operation of its
system. The franchise fee shall be due and payable on the first day
of each and every year thereafter.
[Ord. 724, 5/19/1993,
§ 5]
First year of enactment, 1993, Blue Ridge Cable Television shall
pay a fee equal to 1/2 of collected revenues prior to December 31,
1993. In April of 1994, the company shall pay the remainder of that
collected. For each and every year thereafter the company shall pay
100% of the collected revenues by April of the following year.
