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services, responses to subscriber complaints and other subscriber service policies. The Grantee is further authorized to establish any business office or offices as it deems necessary for the purpose of receiving inquiries, complaints and requests for repairs or adjustments. SECTION 7: Public Access-Local Origination Services and Programming. The Grantee shall provide such public access and local origination channels and programming which it determines to be in the best interests of its subscribers and are economically feasible; any such services and programming shall appeal to and serve a wide spectrum of interests, issues or groups. SECTION 8: Fees to be Paid to the City. During the duration of this franchise, the Grantee shall pay to the City an annual fee equal to five percent (5~) of the gross receipts received from the residents of the City for all monthly subscriber services provided by the Grantee through the Cable System during the Grantee's fiscal year but excluding any taxes on cable services that may be imposed directly on any subscriber by any governmental entity and collected by the Grantee for such entity. The aforesaid fee shall be paid annually within sixty (60) days following the end of the fiscal year of the Grantee. The Grantee shall also, at the written request of the Mayor of the City and within one hundred eighty (180) days after the end of each fiscal year, have available for review by the Mayor, or a person designated by the Mayor, a copy of the Grantee's annual financial report prepared by an independent certified public accounting firm selected by the Grantee. SECTION 9: Prohibition of Obscene Programming. The Grantee shall not transmit any programming over the Cable System that is obscene. If at any time the Grantee shall be required to provide channel capacity for use by persons unaffiliated with the Grantee, the Grantee shall be entitled to refuse to transmit a program service proffered by such persons if, in the judgment of the City, such program service is obscene, or is in conflict with community standards in that it is lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent or is otherwise unprotected by the Constitution of the United States. Furthermore, in order to restrict the viewing of programming which may be considered obscene or indecent, upon the request of a subscriber, the Grantee shall provide (by sale or lease) the means by which the subscriber can prevent the viewing of a particular channel during periods selected by the subscriber. SECTION 10: Transfers and Assignments. The City shall not prohibit or otherwise regulate the transfer of control over the Grantee or the assignment of the assets of the Cable System except as specifically provided for in the Cable Act. Any successor of Grantee shall be bound by the provisions of this ordinance and any subsequent modifications thereof agreed to by Grantee.