A. The franchise(s) shall provide that the CAC shall control the use of ten percent of all cable channels (including ten percent of all channels on subscriber cables) from their inception, free of charge, as access channels.
B. Any time after four years from the date service is offered to the first subscriber on a grantee's cable system, a grantee may request that the cable administrator permit such grantee to utilize any unused or underutilized channels otherwise under the control of the CAC. Upon a finding by the cable administrator that the use of such channels by the grantee shall not detrimentally impact on the CAC's ability to further its designated purposes, the cable administrator may order the CAC to permit the grantee to use a specified number of such channels at no cost for a period of one year. The cable administrator shall review its decision annually thereafter to determine whether continued use of such channels by the grantee would detrimentally impact on the CAC's ability to further its designated purposes. If the cable administrator should then find that such an effect would result from the continued use of such channels, it shall order a grantee to relinquish use of all or a portion of such channels to the CAC.
(Prior code § 113.1-36; Amend Coun. J. 3-27-85, p. 14767; Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1)
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1, renumbered this section, which was formerly § 4-280-360, as § 4-280-320.