As used in this chapter, "eligible broadband service provider" means any company, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that:
(1) either: (A) has been providing broadband service to at least one hundred (100) residences and businesses in Indiana for at least three (3) consecutive years; or(B) is:(i) a corporation organized under IC 8-1-13; or(ii) a corporation organized under IC 23-17 that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one (1) member that is a corporation organized under IC 8-1-13; and(2) has demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the office:(C) operational; capability in building and operating a broadband network, according to standards for determining such capability in guidelines adopted by the office under section 10 of this chapter.
Added by P.L. 189-2019,SEC. 7, eff. 5/2/2019.