(A) A grantee shall not deny service, deny access, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, occupation, age, or sex. A 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 hereby incorporated and made part of this chapter by reference.
(B) A grantee shall strictly adhere to the equal employment opportunity requirements of the FCC, state, and local regulations, as amended from time to time.
(C) No signals of a Class IV cable communications channel shall be transmitted from a user terminal for purposes of monitoring individual cable television viewing patterns or practices without the express written permission of the user. The request for such permission shall be contained in a separate document with a prominent statement that the user is authorizing the permission in full knowledge of its provision. Such written permission shall be for a limited period of time not to exceed one year, which shall be renewable at the option of the user. No penalty shall be invoked for a user’s failure to provide or renew such an authorization. The authorization shall be revocable at any time by the user without penalty of any kind whatsoever. Such authorization is required for each type of classification of Class IV cable television activity planned; provided however, that a grantee shall be entitled to conduct system wide or individually addressed sweeps for the purpose of verifying system integrity, controlling return-path transmission, or billing for pay services.
(D) A grantee, or any of its agents or employees, shall not, without the specific written authorization of a user, sell or otherwise make available to any party:
(1) Lists of names and addresses of such subscribers; or
(2) Any list which identifies the viewing or other telecommunications habits of individual users.
(E) The entire system of a grantee shall be operated in a manner consistent with the principle of fairness and equal accessibility of it facilities, equipment, channels, studios, and other services to all citizens, businesses, public agencies, and other entities having a legitimate use for the network; and no one shall be arbitrarily excluded from it use; allocation of use of said facilities shall be made according to the rules or decisions of a grantee and any regulatory agencies affecting the same.
(2011 Code, § 14.28.040) Penalty, see § 114.999