Section 53-C:3-b Franchises; Administration by Municipality.
I. All franchises shall be nonexclusive. No municipality shall grant any additional franchises to cable service within its jurisdiction on terms or conditions more favorable or less burdensome than those in any existing franchise within such municipality.
II. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any municipality considering the approval of an additional cable service franchise in all or any part of the area of such municipality from imposing additional terms and conditions upon the granting of such franchises as such municipality shall in its sole discretion deem necessary or appropriate.
III. All cable service franchises in existence as of May 1, 1989, shall remain in full force and effect according to their existing terms.
Source. 1989, 338:3, eff. Aug. 1, 1989.