A. Except the license fee on gross revenue authorized by section 9-1443 and transaction privilege taxes as provided in subsection B of this section, a local government may not levy a tax, rent, fee or charge, however denominated, on a video service provider for the use of the highways to provide video service or levy a tax, fee or charge on the privilege of engaging in the business of providing video service in the service area. Taxes, rents, fees and charges include all of the following:

1. 1. Access channel support except for in-kind services, goods or payments as provided in subsection C of this section.
2. 2. Rental, application, construction, permit, inspection, inconvenience and other fees and charges related to a video service provider's use of the highways, including the use authorized by subsection D of this section except that a local government may impose on a video service provider some or all of the fees and charges described in this paragraph. A video service provider shall offset the fees and charges imposed pursuant to this paragraph against the next license fee payment made pursuant to section 9-1443.

D. A local government may not require a video service provider to provide in-kind goods or services, make in-kind payments, assessments or obligations or pay a fee in addition to the monetary license fee levied or assessed as provided in section 9-1443, except for any of the following:

1. 1. A local law may impose and enforce obligations equally and uniformly on all video service providers that are operating within the boundaries of a local government and on all holdover cable operators that hold a local license that remains in effect under section 9-1414, subsection A. Under the local law, a local government:

   1. (a) May require all video service providers to provide channel capacity for the video service provider to transmit programming over which the video service provider exercises no editorial control except as authorized by 47 United States Code section 531(e). The channel capacity shall be limited to one of the following:

      1. (i) Not more than two channels of public, educational or governmental access programming in the basic service tier of the video service network and not more than two channels of noncommercial governmental programming, at least one of which may be programmed by the federal government, in the digital programming tier of the video service network.
      2. (ii) Not more than two lines of access programming with each line of programming carried on up to two standard definition channels and two switched digital high-definition channels.
   2. (b) Shall specify the programming and the video service provider may require that the channels regularly display an unobtrusive logo or other suitable identifier of the video service provider, if the local government requires channel capacity pursuant to subdivision (a) of this paragraph.

   3. (c) May require all video service providers to incur costs and expenses to provide, maintain and operate facilities and equipment of the video service network, including facilities and equipment for signal carriage, processing, reformatting and interconnection for all of the following:

      1. (i) To connect the video service network or cable system, as it may be relocated from time to time, to transmit programming to and from existing locations of public, educational or governmental access facilities and to allow monitoring of access programming at the facilities.
      2. (ii) To transmit public, educational and governmental access channels to subscribers with the same prevailing quality, functionality and identification as other channels.
   4. (d) May require all video service providers and incumbent cable operators to provide at no initial or recurring charge the basic service tier of video service to one outlet and one receiving device at each building occupied by the local government if the building is not more than two hundred feet from the nearest technically and commercially feasible point of connection on the video service network.
2. 2. A local government may retain nonreceiving equipment that it owns without charge for the equipment's use and at the local government's expense, including equipment previously provided by an incumbent cable operator.

H. On application, a local government shall issue to a video service provider or its affiliate a permit to attach allowed Wi-Fi radio equipment to the video service network in the highways within the boundaries of the local government. The permit shall allow installation, operation and maintenance of allowed Wi-Fi radio equipment. A local government may require that all of the allowed Wi-Fi radio equipment at a single location fit within a fifteen-inch cube and be contained entirely within a ground-mounted pedestal or be connected directly to and mounted at the same height as one of the video service provider's aerial horizontal conductors. This subsection does not do any of the following:

1. 1. Prohibit a local government from requiring a video service provider to place underground aerial facilities to which allowed Wi-Fi equipment is attached.
2. 2. Prohibit the imposition of a tax, rent, fee or charge on revenue from services provided through allowed Wi-Fi radio equipment.
3. 3. Affect the authority of a local government to manage the highways within its boundaries or to exercise its police powers, including review and approval of an application before issuing a permit.
4. 4. Affect any authority of a political subdivision, including an agricultural improvement district or any other special taxing district, the local government or any other person controlling utility poles in the highways to deny, limit, restrict or determine the terms and conditions for the use of or attachment to the utility poles or attachments to other poles of the political subdivision, local government or other person by a video service provider.