As used in this chapter:
(a) "Act" means the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended, specifically including the amendments contained in the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, Public Law 102-385.
(b) "Associated equipment" means all equipment and services subject to regulation pursuant to 47 CFR 76.923. Said equipment and services are those used by the subscriber to receive basic service cable programming, regardless of whether such equipment and services are also used to receive other tiers of regulated programming service and/or unregulated tiers of programming service. "Associated equipment" includes, but is not limited to:
(1) Converter boxes;
(2) Remote control units;
(3) Connections for additional television receivers; and
(4) Other cable home wiring.
(c) "Basic service" means the level or tier of cable television programming which includes, at a minimum, all signals of domestic television broadcast stations provided to any subscriber (except a signal secondarily transmitted by satellite carrier beyond the local service area of such station, regardless of how such signal is ultimately received by the cable system), public, educational and/or governmental programming required by the franchising authority to be carried as a basic service and any additional video programming signals added to the basic service by the regulated cable operator.
(d) "Existing rates" means the rates for basic service and associated equipment charged by a regulated cable operator on the initial date of regulation by the franchising authority.
(e) "FCC" means the United States Federal Communications Commission.
(f) "FCC Rules and Regulations" means any and all rules and regulations which the FCC promulgates and/or adopts pursuant to the Act.
(g) "Franchising authority" means the Township Board of the Charter Township of Clinton.
(h) "Rate increase" means an increase in rates for basic service and/or associated equipment, including, among others, increases in rates that are the result of reductions in programming provided under the basic service.
(i) "Regulated cable operator" means any operator of a cable television system that is subject to regulation by a certified franchising authority.
(j) "Township" means the Charter Township of Clinton, Macomb County, Michigan.
(Ord. 300. Passed 2-7-94.)