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group has not previously obtained a national 
franchise; or 
‘‘(B) file with the Commission a subse-
quent certification for additional franchise areas 
containing the information required by para-
graph (3) with respect to such additional fran-
chise areas, if such person or group has pre-
viously obtained a national franchise. 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS OF CERTIFICATION.—Such cer-
tification shall be in such form as the Commission 
shall require by regulation and shall contain— 
‘‘(A) the name under which such person or 
group is offering or intends to offer cable serv-
ice; 
‘‘(B) the names and business addresses of 
the directors and principal executive officers, or 
the persons performing similar functions, of 
such person or group; 
‘‘(C) the location of such person or group’s 
principal business office; 
‘‘(D) the name, business address, elec-
tronic mail address, and telephone and fax 
number of such person or group’s local agent; 
‘‘(E) a declaration by such person or group 
that such person or group is eligible under sub-
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section (d) to obtain a national franchise under 
this section; 
‘‘(F) an identification of each franchise 
area in which such person or group seeks au-
thority to offer cable service pursuant to such 
certification, which franchise area shall be— 
‘‘(i) the entirety of a franchise area in 
which a cable operator is, on the date of 
the filing of such certification, authorized 
to provide cable service under section 621 
or any other law (including this section); 
or 
‘‘(ii) a geographic area that covers the 
entirety of the jurisdiction of a unit of gen-
eral local government, except that— 
‘‘(I) if the geographic area over-
laps with a franchise area in which a 
cable operator is, on such date, au-
thorized to provide cable service under 
section 621 or any other law, the geo-
graphic area identified in the certifi-
cation under this clause as a franchise 
area shall not include the overlapping 
area; and 
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‘‘(II) if such geographic area in-
cludes areas that are, respectively, 
within the jurisdiction of different 
franchising authorities, the certifi-
cation shall specify each such area as 
a separate franchise area; 
‘‘(G) a declaration that such person or 
group transmitted, or will transmit on the day 
of filing such declaration, a copy of such certifi-
cation to the franchising authority for each 
franchise area for which such person or group 
is filing a certification for authority to offer 
cable service under this section; 
‘‘(H) a declaration by the person or group 
that the person or group will comply with the 
rights-of-way requirements of the franchising 
authority in accordance with subsection (f); and 
‘‘(I) a declaration by the person or group 
that— 
‘‘(i) the person or group will comply 
with all Commission consumer protection 
and customer service rules under section 
632(b) (including the rules adopted under 
section 632(b) pursuant to subsection (g) 
of this section); and 
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