VSP RESOLUTION.DOCX

MARICOPA COUNTY RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE COUNTY’S STANDARD FORM
OF UNIFORM VIDEO SERVICE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND THE STANDARD FORM
OF APPLICATION AND AFFIDAVIT FOR UNIFORM VIDEO SERVICE LICENSE
WHEREAS, pursuant to Arizona Revised Statute Title 11, Chapter 14, the State declared the
licensing of video service providers and the regulation and use of video service matters of
statewide concern and preempted the licensing of such providers and the regulation and use of
such services; and
WHEREAS, Arizona Revised Statute § 11-1911, requires the County adopt a uniform video
service license agreement and a standard form application and affidavit; and
WHEREAS, in order to require a license fee the County is required to adopt a local law imposing
the license fee equally and uniformly on video service providers and holdover cable operators
operating within the boundaries of the County; and
WHEREAS, the County previously passed Ordinance No. P-15 establishing a license fee
structure; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the County to provide adequate and sufficient authority
to the Director of Maricopa County Department of Transportation (“Director”), and/or his/her
designee, to execute, on behalf of Maricopa County, these video service license agreements
and the Application for such Licenses;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona (Board of
Supervisors), that the attached forms titled “Maricopa County Video Service License
Agreement” and “Application and Affidavit for Uniform Video Service License Agreement
are hereby adopted as the standard forms to be used by the County in the process of
licensing video service providers operating within the boundaries of the County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pursuant to the fee structure established in Ordinance No.
P-15, the video service license fee shall be 5% of the gross revenue the video service
provider receives from its subscribers located within the boundaries of the County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the license fee required by the County for the privilege of a
video service provider to occupy or use, in whole or in part, a County highway shall be
imposed equally and uniformly on all video service providers and holdover cable operators
operating within the boundaries of the County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director and/or his/her designee, is hereby authorized
to sign on behalf of the County, Video Service License Agreements with applicants which
have met the requirements found in Arizona Revised Statute Title 11, Chapter 14.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of all documents executed by the Director and/or
his/her designee pursuant to this resolution are to be kept at the Office of the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors, Maricopa County, Arizona, this
_______day of __________________, 2019.
ATTEST:
______________________________ ____________________________
Bill Gates Fran McCarroll
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Clerk of the Board
Maricopa County
APPROVED AS TO FORM and within the powers
And authority granted under the laws of the State
of Arizona and Maricopa County:
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Deputy County Attorney