Excerpt from the Jefferson City Municipal Code

CHAPTER 21 - Cable TV Franchise

21.17 FRANCHISE FEE AND FINANCIAL REPORTING. 

(1) FRANCHISE FEE PAYMENT. As compensation for permission to use the streets and public ways of the City for the construction, operation, maintenance, modification, and reconstruction of a cable system, and for the City's costs in establishing a regulatory program for a Grantee, the Grantee shall pay to the City each year an amount equal to 5% of the Grantee's annual Gross Revenues.

# (2) PAYMENT SCHEDULE; ESTIMATED PAYMENTS; LATE PAYMENTS. The Franchise fee shall be paid on a quarterly basis according to the following schedule: revenues for January through March shall be reflected in a May 15th payment; revenues for April through June shall be reflected in an August 15th payment; revenues for July through September shall be reflected in a November 15th payment; and revenues for October through December shall be reflected in a February 15th payment.
The Grantee may make estimated payments for the first three quarters of a calendar year, provided that no estimated quarterly payment is less than 25% of the previous year's total annual payment, and that any discrepancy between the estimated quarterly payments and the total owed for the calendar year is corrected by the February 15th payment.
The Grantee shall pay to the City a late payment fee of 1.5% per month or portion thereof for any late franchise fee payments.

# 21.19 WAIVER OF CHARGES. (1) During a Franchise, a Grantee shall provide one free outlet and basic and expanded basic cable service to each municipally owned or leased building passed by the cable system and used substantially for municipal purposes, as well as to any and all schools, whether private or public, within the Franchise territory.

# (2) Upon 180 days notice by the City, the Grantee shall be required to provide two dedicated, non-commercial access channels, including wiring, insertion equipment and the return path needed to connect to the cable system. Origination shall be from any two locations chosen by the City within the Franchise territory that are passed by the cable system.

3. The City shall have sole authority to administer the community access channels unless it chooses to delegate such authority. A Grantee shall not be responsible for the equipment or operating costs for community access channels, except as provided for in a Franchise Agreement.

(4) The Grantee shall provide the City with an emergency alert override capacity, capable of securely accepting signals from a remote location and displaying City information on all channels.