As used in this chapter, 'qualified broadband provider' means any company, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that, at the time of submission of a grant application under this chapter:(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;that provides or will provide, alone or in conjunction with one (1) or more other legal entities, broadband service within the corporation's electric service territory; and(2) has demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the office:(A) financial;(B) technical; and(C) operational;capability in building and operating a broadband network.As added by P.L.177-2018, SEC.5.
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