Title 49, PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

A translator district organized under this chapter, acting through its board of trustees may perform all the acts and take all the necessary steps to provide television services within the area in order that all persons within the service area shall be supplied by means of an app…

If necessary in the furtherance of the objects of this chapter, a translator district organized under this chapter may acquire, build, construct, repair, own, maintain and operate any necessary stations transmitting simultaneous signals intended to be received by the general publ…

A translator district organized under this chapter may make contracts with the United States, or any state, municipality or any department or agency of those entities for carrying out the general purposes for which the district is formed. It may make contracts of any lawful natur…

A translator district organized under this chapter may apply for, accept, and be the holder of any permit or license issued by or required under federal or state law. Source: SL 1976, ch 76 , § 9; SL 1979, ch 315 , § 7.

The purpose of a translator district shall be to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity in the construction, maintenance and operation of translator stations and any system necessary thereto by appropriate electronic means for television program distribution, but t…

The board of county commissioners may annex contiguous territory by ordinance in accordance with the procedures outlined in chapter 1-24 . Source: SL 1976, ch 76 , § 15.

If a board of county commissioners finds, following a public hearing or hearings, that the continued existence of a television translator district would no longer serve the purposes of this chapter, it may by resolution order the district dissolved. In the case of a television tr…

Any area of the state may organize as a translator district for the performance of functions provided for in this chapter. A translator district may include a part or all of any county or may include areas in more than one county and may include any municipality located within th…

A board of county commissioners may by ordinance establish a translator district. The provisions of chapter 7-18A shall govern such procedure. Source: SL 1976, ch 76 , § 4.

Before any further action is taken the board of county commissioners shall order a feasibility study to be made by a professional engineering consultant as defined in this chapter. The feasibility study shall include recommendations, including but not limited to the type and amou…

The commissioners shall present the feasibility study to the general public residing in the proposed coverage area by public hearings. If sufficient public interest and support is indicated at the public hearings, the board of county commissioners shall establish the boundaries o…

The board of county commissioners, upon the creation of the district, and as a part of the order creating the district, shall appoint a board of no less than three nor more than five trustees to administer the affairs of the district. Each of the trustees shall be a resident of t…

Trustees appointed pursuant to § 49-32A-7 shall hold office for the term of their respective appointment or until their successors are appointed and qualified; at the end of the respective terms of the trustees, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a new trustee for a …

The board of trustees shall meet once a month at a regular time and place to transact the business of the district, the time and place to be fixed by the trustees and any change in the time and place of meetings shall be given by publication of notice in a newspaper most likely t…