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[CITE: 47USC557]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                  SUBCHAPTER V-A--CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
 
                    Part IV--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 557. Existing franchises

    (a) The provisions of--
        (1) any franchise in effect on the effective date of this 
    subchapter, including any such provisions which relate to the 
    designation, use, or support for the use of channel capacity for 
    public, educational, or governmental use, and
        (2) any law of any State (as defined in section 153 of this 
    title) in effect on October 30, 1984, or any regulation promulgated 
    pursuant to such law, which relates to such designation, use or 
    support of such channel capacity,

shall remain in effect, subject to the express provisions of this 
subchapter, and for not longer than the then current remaining term of 
the franchise as such franchise existed on such effective date.
    (b) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section and other 
provisions of this subchapter, a franchise shall be considered in effect 
on the effective date of this subchapter if such franchise was granted 
on or before such effective date.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, Sec. 637, as added Pub. L. 98-549, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2800; amended Pub. L. 104-104, 
Sec. 3(d)(3), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 61.)

                       References in Text

    For ``the effective date of this subchapter'' and ``such effective 
date'', referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), as 60 days after Oct. 30, 
1984, except where otherwise expressly provided, see section 9(a) of 
Pub. L. 98-549, set out as an Effective Date note under section 521 of 
this title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 104-104 substituted ``section 153'' 
for ``section 153(v)''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 60 days after Oct. 30, 1984, except where 
otherwise expressly provided, see section 9(a) of Pub. L. 98-549, set 
out as a note under section 521 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 532, 556 of this title.
