A municipality that provides a cable television service or a public telecommunications service under this chapter:
Terms Used In Utah Code 10-18-301
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Cable television service: means :
(a)
the one-way transmission to subscribers of:
(i)
video programming; or
(ii)
other programming service; and
(b)
subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of:
a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104
Public telecommunications service: means the two-way transmission of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwaves, or other electromagnetic means offered to the public generally. See Utah Code 10-18-102
(a)
shall establish an enterprise fund to account for the municipality’s operations of a cable television service or public telecommunications service;
shall, consistent with the requirements of Section 10-6-135, adopt separate operating and capital budgets for the municipality’s:
(i)
cable television services; and
(ii)
public telecommunications services;
(d)
may not transfer any appropriation or other balance in any enterprise fund established by the municipality under this section to another enterprise fund; and
(e)
may not transfer any appropriation or other balance in any other enterprise fund established by the municipality under Chapter 6, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities, to any enterprise fund established by the municipality under this section.
(2)
The restrictions on transfers described in Subsections (1)(d) and (e) do not apply to transfers made by a municipality between other enterprise funds established by the municipality.
