(a) The company shall provide each public, private and parochial school, fire station, public library and township building and such public auditoriums and institutions as are requested by the township, with a single drop and service without charge. Additional drops and service will be charged to the facility by the company at cost to the company of time and material only.
(b) The company shall comply with the present and future rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission in connection with, and relating to, the operation of its system and shall make available a service offering at a rate approved by the Commissioners pursuant to § 818.01 as follows:
(1) Public access channel. The company shall maintain at least one specially designated, noncommercial public access channel available on a first-come, nondiscriminatory basis;
(2) Education access channel. The company shall maintain at least one specially designated channel for use by local educational authorities;
(3) Local government access channel. The company shall maintain at least one specially designated channel for local government uses; and
(4) Leased access channel. The company shall maintain at least one specially designated channel for leased access uses. In addition, other portions of its nonbroadcast bandwidth, including unused portions of the specially designated channels, shall be available for leased uses. On at least one of the leased channels, priority shall be given part-time users.
(c) The company shall construct a system with a minimum channel capacity of 30 television channels and with the technical capability of transceiver nonvoice communication. At such time as transceiver nonvoice communication becomes operable, no monitoring of any terminal connected to the system shall take place without specific written authorization by the user of the terminal in question on each occasion. In no event shall monitoring of any kind take place without a clearly visible light and clearly audible sound signal. The light shall be visible and the sound audible at a distance of at least 30 feet from the terminal at the time of monitoring.
(d) The company shall carry on its system the signals of all stations significantly viewed in the county, these to include all local network and educational VHF stations and local UHF stations and, in addition, not less than two distant commercial stations. However, the township shall have the right to compel the company to carry additional station signals in the company’s system and the company shall carry on its system any additional station signals requested by the township.
(e) The grantee shall conduct program origination cable casting, in addition to any automated services.
(f) The company shall provide both portable and stationary equipment to be used by access cable casters with the aid of a technical and production staff to be provided by the company. Included must be equipment that can store programs for later showing. In addition, a centrally located studio must be made available to all access users on a first-come, first-serve basis. A full schedule of rates for users of the equipment, the studio and the technical and production staff must be provided, including rates for portable facilities, if they differ. Rates may give preference to noncommercial users.
(Ord. 474, passed 9-20-1978)