§ 13-256. Transfer assignments.  


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  • A telecommunications permit shall not be sold, assigned or transferred, either in whole or in part, or leased, sublet, or mortgaged in any manner, nor shall title thereto, either legal or equitable or any right, interest or property therein, pass to or vest in any person without the prior written consent of commission.

    No such consent shall be required for a transfer in trust, mortgage, or other hypothecation as a whole or in part to secure an indebtedness, except when such hypothecation shall exceed fifty (50) percent of the market value of the property used by the permittee in conducting the business of the permittee. The permittee shall promptly notify manager, or a designee, of any proposed change in, or transfer of, or control of the permittee. The word "control" as used herein is not limited to major stockholders but includes actual working control in whatever manner exercised. Every change, transfer, or acquisition of control of the permittee shall make the permit subject to cancellation unless and until the commission shall have consented thereto. An applicant for a permit transfer shall submit a written application to manager or designee on application forms provided by manager accompanied by required exhibits and a transfer fee established by resolution by the commission. A rebuttable presumption that a transfer of control has occurred shall arise upon the acquisition or accumulation by any person or group of persons of ten (10) percent or more of the voting interest of the permittee. The consent or approval of the commission to any transfer of the permit shall not constitute a waiver or release of the rights of in and to city streets, and any transfer shall by its terms, be expressly subordinate to the terms and conditions of the permit and this article.

(Ord. No. 1994-16, § 6, 11-29-94)