Mount Pleasant Township v. Astro Cablevision Corp.

RODGERS, J.,

Plaintiff, Mount Pleasant Township, a second class township in the County of Washington, seeks injunctive relief against defendant, Astro Cablevision Corporation, a business corporation with offices in the Borough of Canonsburg, Washington County, to prohibit defendant from continuing with the construction of cable television facilities in the township in the absence of a franchise from the township.

The issue to be determined is whether a second class township such as plaintiff has authority to franchise such cable television services.

*230For reasons stated, the court concludes that…