(A) Grantee shall not deny service, deny access, or otherwise discriminate against any subscriber, channel user, or other user, or any citizen on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or sexual orientation. Grantee shall comply at all times with all other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and all executive and administrative orders relating to nondiscrimination which are incorporated and made part of this chapter by reference.
(B) No signals of a class IV cable com- munications channel shall be transmitted from a subscriber terminal for purposes of monitoring individual viewing patterns or practices without the express written permission of the subscriber. No person shall be required to grant such permission. The request for such permission shall be contained in a separate document with a prominent statement that the subscriber is authorizing the permission in full knowledge of its provision. The authorization shall be revocable at any time by the subscriber without penalty of any kind whatsoever. Such authorization is required for each type of classification of class IV cable communications activity planned for the purpose; provided, however, that the grantee shall be entitled:
(1) To conduct system-wide or individually addressed "sweeps" for the purpose of verifying system integrity, provided such sweeps do not monitor or reveal what subscribers are viewing; and
(2) Conduct individually addressed sweeps for the purpose of controlling return-path trans- mission, or billing for pay services.
(C) Pursuant to the requirements of the Cable Communication Policy Act of 1984, the grantee shall be required to notify subscribers annually as to their rights to subscriber privacy under the Act. The grantee shall be prohibited from disclosure of any personally identified information except as provided for under the Act.
(Ord. passed 7-21-86) Penalty, see § 111.99