§ 13-146. Telephone company.

(a)

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which is conducting or carrying on business in the city, under a franchise from the city shall pay to the city a privilege-franchise charge in the amount of four and one-quarter (4.25) percent of the local exchange access line charges collected in each preceding calendar quarter from its residential, commercial, and industrial customers within the corporate limits of the city.

(b)

The privilege-franchise charge shall be payable on or before the 30th day of April, 1990, for the calendar quarter ending March 31, 1990, and quarterly thereafter on or before the last day of each month following the end of the preceding calendar quarter.

(c)

As an incident to the privilege and franchise hereby extended, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company shall have the right to occupy present or future streets, highways, alleys, or other public ways of the city for the purpose of carrying on its public utility business.

(d)

On or before March 31 of each year, Southwestern Bell's local access line revenues collected in the city the preceding calendar year shall be certified to the city by a responsible official of the company. The city shall have the right to inspect, at any reasonable time, the financial records of the company relating to the company's revenues from the local access lines within the city.

(e)

The city recognizes and accepts the purposes and results of an order of the state public service commission entered on February 7, 1980, in docket U-3013 relating to the treatment by the telephone company of all city special fees. The fees, together with costs of collection thereof provided for by this section may be passed on to the customers of the telephone company in keeping with in provision of such order.

(f)

In addition to the payment provided for by this section, the company shall be subject to the occupation license and employer's excise tax provisions of article III of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 7-90, § II, 1-2-90; Ord. No. 79-17, § 1, 12-19-17)