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02/09/95 (REVISOR ] RR/DE 95-1426 <br />1 cooperative, association, proprietorship, company, limited <br />2 liability company, firm, corporation, artnershi ,limited <br />3 liability partnership, or other for- rofit organization . <br />4 qualified to conduct business in Minnesota <br />5 Subd. 7. [PLAIN OLD CABLE SERVICE, "POCS".] "Plain old <br />6 cable service." or "POCS" means video transmission delivered <br />7 under authority granted by federal law, chapter 238, and local <br />8 cable communications franchises. <br />9 Subd. 8. [PLAIN OLD TELEPHONE SERVICE, "POTS".] "Plain old <br />10 telephone service" or "POTS" means bidirectional voice <br />11 transmission delivered under authorit~r nte~ by federal law <br />12 and chapter 237. <br />13 Subd. 9. [SUBSCRIBER.] "Subscriber" means a consumer or <br />14 user of a communications service delivered throu h the use of 4~ <br /> <br />15 public property or public rights-of-way. <br />~? <br />a <br />~ <br /> <br />16 Sec. 2. [237A.02] [LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS; POLICY.] <br />17 Subdivision 1. [FINDINGS.] The legislature finds and <br />18 declares the following• <br />19 (a) Public property and public rights-of-way are valuable • <br />20 .public assets and local authorities are entitled to ensure that <br />21 the public is benefited by their use for private urposes <br />22 (b) All similarly situated persons providing emerging <br />23 .communications services that use public property and ublic <br />24 rights-of-way to provide those services should be treated <br />25 similarly by the state overnment and local authorities <br />26 (c) In chapter 237, the le islature has established a plan <br />27 for the occupancy and use of public property and' ublic <br />28 rights-of-way with regard to POCS and also established uniform <br />29 policies that will bring about development and interconnection <br />30 of POTS subject to reasonable state oversi ht <br />31 (d) In chapter 238, the le islature has established a Dlan <br />32 for the occupancy and use of public property and public <br />33 rights-of-way and declared that it is in the public interest to <br />34 protect and to preserve the interests of communities with regard. <br />35 to POCS and also has established uniform olicies that will <br />36 bring about development and the availability of POCS sub'ect to <br />t <br />2 - - <br />