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Granting permission to Williams Communications, LLC., its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, operate, replace, and remove a telecommunications system under certain public rights-of-way and City streets and or to place such telecommunications system within existing conduit facilities owned by Verizon-PA, Inc., PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Consolidated Rail Corporation, National Passenger Railroad Corporation or other entities holding a legal grant pursuant to other City ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Permission is hereby granted to Williams Communications, LLC., P.O. Box 22064, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74121-2064 (hereinafter "Williams") and its successors , assigns, and agents to construct, maintain, operate replace and remove a telecommunications system and appurtenances in and under the public rights-of-way of the City of Philadelphia and within existing facilities owned by Verizon-PA, Inc., PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Consolidated Rail Corporation, National Passenger Railroad Corporation or other entities holding a legal grant pursuant to other City ordinances, subject to such owner's consent; and to construct, lay, operate, maintain, replace and remove new telecommunication cables, conduit, access manholes and associated appurtenances (collectively, the "Telecommunications System") to create a system used to transmit, receive and distribute telecommunications, provided that Williams is not authorized by this Ordinance to provide to subscribers within the City "cable services," (as defined at 47 U.S.C. §522(6)), or "video programming" (as defined at 47 U.S.C. §522(20)) as an open video system operator pursuant to 47 U.S.C. §573(a) or otherwise.
(a) Williams is aut...
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