§ 28.1. Telecommunications.

The city shall have the power and authority to acquire, own, hold, lease, sell, resell, build, maintain, operate and contract with respect to a telecommunications systems network in order to provide telecommunications services and similar other services; to establish and charge rates, fees, tolls and charges for the services, facilities or commodities furnished or made available by such undertaking; to interconnect its system or services or both with the systems or services of consumers and other providers; to use telecommunications to respond to community needs; encourage the development of information-based organizations in the City of Fort Valley, Georgia; to finance from time to time any such telecommunications systems through the issuance of revenue bonds as then permitted by the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia; and to make any contract with respect to, and furnish the services of, any said systems to consumers within or outside the corporate limits of the city.

(Ord. of 6-17-1999, § 1)