§ 51:2370.1 There is hereby created a grant program to be known as the “Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities” program, hereinafter referred to as the “GUMBO” program.
§ 51:2370.2 As used in this Subpart, the following terms have the following meanings:
§ 51:2370.3 A. A provider that has been fully authorized to receive Universal Service, Connect America Phase II, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, or other public funds to deploy broadband service
§ 51:2370.4 A. Applications for grants shall be submitted at times designated by the director and may include, at a minimum, the following information:
§ 51:2370.5 A.(1) An aggrieved party may submit a protest of an award in accordance with this Section. The period for protesting an award shall be thirty days from the announcement of an award.
§ 51:2370.6 The office may consult with the Louisiana Department of Economic Development to determine if a broadband project proposed under this Subpart will benefit a potential economic develop
§ 51:2370.7 Applications shall be scored based upon a system that awards a single point for criteria considered to be the minimum level for the provision of broadband service with additional poi
§ 51:2370.8 A. Grant recipients are required to provide matching funds in accordance with rules promulgated by the office. A grant recipient shall contribute from its own funds a minimum of twen
§ 51:2370.9 The office shall require that grant recipients offer the proposed advertised minimum download and minimum upload speeds of twenty-five Mbps download and three Mbps upload. Grant reci
§ 51:2370.10 A. A grant recipient shall forfeit the amount of the grant received if it fails to perform, in material respect, the obligations established in the agreement. Grant recipients that f
§ 51:2370.11 The division of administration shall be the designated agency for receipt and disbursement of state and federal funds intended for the state for broadband expansion or allocated by t
§ 51:2370.12 A. Grant recipients shall submit to the office an annual report for each funded project for the duration of the agreement. The report shall include a summary of the items contained i
§ 51:2370.13 The office may use up to one percent of the appropriated funds to administer the GUMBO program. The office may use an additional one percent of the appropriated funds to hire third-p
§ 51:2370.14 A. The office shall promulgate rules necessary to carry out the provisions of this Subpart in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.
§ 51:2370.15 Initial funding of ten percent shall be distributed to a grantee once the grantee has demonstrated that ten percent of the project has been completed. Thereafter, payments shall be d
§ 51:2370.16 Notwithstanding any provision of this Subpart to the contrary, all records related to the GUMBO program shall be public records as provided by the Public Records Law, except for a pr

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 51 > Chapter 39 > Part VI-C > Subpart A - Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities 1.0

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Agriculture: means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Broadband service: means deployed internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second (Mbps) download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Cooperative: means a corporation organized under Part I of Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a corporation who becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Corporation: means the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation as established in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2303
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • economic unit: consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Economically distressed parish: means an unserved area that is in need of expansion of business and industry and the creation of jobs, giving consideration to unemployment, per capita income, and the number of residents receiving public assistance within that unserved area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Eligible grant recipient: means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act prior to July 1, 2021, with respect to providing such services, a cooperative, or any partnership thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Eligible project: means a discrete and specific project located in an unserved area of an eligible parish seeking to provide broadband service to homes, households, businesses, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, and community anchor points not currently served. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fund: means the Louisiana Economic Development Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Household: means any individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Infrastructure: means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Local government: means a parish, municipality, or school board, or any instrumentality thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Office: means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Program: means the Workforce Development and Training Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
  • Prospective broadband recipient: means a household, home, business, educational facility, healthcare facility, community anchor point, agricultural operation, or agricultural processing facility that is currently unserved and is identified in an application submitted in accordance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Shapefile: means a file format for storing, depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage, comprised of several component files, such as a Main file (. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Unserved: means , notwithstanding any other provision of law, any federal funding awarded to or allocated by the state for broadband deployment shall not be used, directly or indirectly, to deploy broadband infrastructure to provide broadband internet service in any area of the state where broadband internet service of at least one hundred megabits per second download and twenty megabits per second upload is available from at least one internet service provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Unserved area: means a designated geographic area that is presently without access to broadband service, as defined in this Section, offered by a wireline or fixed wireless provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.