2020 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology
86-597 Retail or wholesale service; how construed.
86-597. Retail or wholesale service; how construed.
(1) For purposes of sections 86-594 and 86-595, providing a service on a retail or wholesale basis shall not include an agency or political subdivision of the state, whether or not a public power supplier, deploying or utilizing broadband services, Internet services, telecommunications services, or video services, for its own use either individually or jointly through the Interlocal Cooperation Act, the Joint Public Agency Act, or the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act for the internal use and purpose of the agency, political subdivision, or public power supplier or to carry out the public purposes of the agency, political subdivision, or public power supplier.
(2) Nothing in sections 86-593 to 86-598 prohibits or restricts the ability of an agency, political subdivision, or public power supplier from deploying or utilizing broadband services, Internet services, telecommunications services, or video services for the internal use and purpose of the agency, political subdivision, or public power supplier, or to carry out the public purposes of the agency, political subdivision, or public power supplier.
Source
- Laws 2005, LB 645, § 5;
- Laws 2009, LB154, § 23;
- Laws 2014, LB658, § 1.
Cross References
- Interlocal Cooperation Act, see section 13-801.
- Joint Public Agency Act, see section 13-2501.
- Municipal Cooperative Financing Act, see section 18-2401.
