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<section heading="Sec. 8A-8 Application for Grant, Renewal, Modification or Transfer of a Franchise - Regulations">
  <regulation heading="COMCOR 08A.08.01 Cable Television Application Filing Fees">
    <subsection heading="08A.08.01.01 Authority">
      <paragraph indent="2">Section 8A-8(b)(2) of the Montgomery County Code, as amended, requires that application filing fees be established by Executive Regulation. Section 8A-29 (b)(4) states that the Executive Regulation on application filing fees must be adopted under Method (3).</paragraph>
    </subsection>
    <subsection heading="08A.08.01.02 Fees">
      <paragraph indent="2">The application filing fees shall be as follows:</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">Type of Application                  Amount</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">1.   Grant of a New Franchise</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">a.   Regular Franchise            $25,000.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">b.   Limited Franchise</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">(i)   100 homes or more         $  8,500.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">(ii)   Less than 100 homes         $  3,000.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">2.   Renewal of a Franchise</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">a.   Formal Procedures provided</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="5">for in the federal Cable Act.         $25,000.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">b.   Informal Procedures provided</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="5">for in the federal Cable Act.         $25,000.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">3.   Modification of a Franchise</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">47 U.S.C. 545 Modification (Section 625</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">of the federal Cable Act)            $10,000.00 per modification</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="3">4.   Transfer of a Franchise</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">a.   Transfer or Assignment of a</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="5">Franchise, or Transfer of</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="5">Control of a Franchise            $10,000.00</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="4">b.   Transfer of an Interest in a</paragraph>
      <paragraph indent="5">Franchise of 25-49%            $  1,500.00</paragraph>
    </subsection>
    <subsection heading="08A.08.01.03 Effective Date">
      <paragraph indent="2">This regulation becomes effective 30 calendar days after the deadline for comments in the Register.</paragraph>
    </subsection>
  </regulation>
</section>