As used in this chapter:
(a) "Community antenna system", "CATV system" or "wired city" means any facility which originates or transmits or distributes electronic or other signals to subscribers or others for which a fee or fees may be charged, including video and/or audio signals from operating television stations and AM and FM radio stations, but not limited to such signals. Specifically included as permissible are services, transmissions, distributions and/or programming originated by or on the system or by others with the system's consent.
"Community antenna system" shall not be applied to the following facilities:
(1) A facility servicing fewer than fifty subscribers;
(2) A facility servicing one or more rental complexes, including apartments and/or townhouses and/or single dwellings under the same ownership, control or management, and including commercial establishments located on the premises of such a rental complex or complexes;
(3) A facility servicing individual hotels or motels or more than one hotel and/ or motel under the same ownership, control or management; or
(4) A facility owned and operated by a nonprofit organization, with service limited to the premises of such nonprofit organization.
(b) "Operator" means any person, partnership, firm, company, corporation or association operating a community antenna system and holding a permit granted by an ordinance of Council to operate the same within the corporate limits of the City.
(c) "Transmission and distribution", "carriage and/or utilization" and "origination" means methods, techniques and procedures in the operation of a community antenna system as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, either by virtue of enabling rules and regulations or in the absence of prohibiting rules and regulations.
(Ord. 123-76. Passed 6-17-76.)