IC 4-4-38-4: "Qualified broadband provider"

Sec. 4. 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.