Indiana Code
Chapter 38.5. Broadband Grants for Rural Areas
4-4-38.5-4. "Eligible Broadband Service Provider"

Sec. 4. 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:
(A) financial;
(B) technical; and
(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.
As added by P.L.189-2019, SEC.7.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 4. State Offices and Administration

Article 4. Lieutenant Governor

Chapter 38.5. Broadband Grants for Rural Areas

4-4-38.5-1. Applicability

4-4-38.5-1.6. "Challenge"

4-4-38.5-1.7. "Deployed"

4-4-38.5-2. "Eligible Broadband Project"

4-4-38.5-3. "Eligible Broadband Service"

4-4-38.5-4. "Eligible Broadband Service Provider"

4-4-38.5-4.5. "Eligible Student"

4-4-38.5-5. "Fund"

4-4-38.5-5.6. "Minimum Broadband Internet"

4-4-38.5-6. "Office"

4-4-38.5-6.2. "Public School Corporation"

4-4-38.5-7. "Rural Area"

4-4-38.5-7.1. "Rural Health Clinic"

4-4-38.5-8. "State Agency"

4-4-38.5-8.5. Challenge Process

4-4-38.5-9. Grants for Eligible Broadband Projects; Funding Priorities; Grant Eligibility; Preferred Projects; Publication of Grant Applications and Receipt of Comments, Objections, and Counter Proposals

4-4-38.5-10. Office to Adopt Guidelines; Collaboration With State Agencies and Political Subdivisions

4-4-38.5-10.5. Broadband Connectivity Subsidies; Subsidy Agreements; Priority for Subsidies; Permitted Use of Subsidy Payments; Eligibility for Subsidies

4-4-38.5-11. Rural Broadband Fund

4-4-38.5-12. Awarding of Grants After July 31, 2019; Limitation on Transfer of Assets; Grant Agreement Required; Funds Conditioned on Project Completion

4-4-38.5-13. Broadband Grant Goals and Assessment Metrics; Annual Report to Interim Study Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications; Annual Audit by State Board of Accounts

4-4-38.5-14. Confidential or Proprietary Business Information; Nondisclosure