(A) Any cable system within the county and outside of a municipality shall meet or exceed the technical standards set forth in 47 C.F.R. §§ 76.601 et seq. and any other applicable federal technical standards, including any such reasonable standards as hereafter may be amended or adopted by the County Board in a manner consistent with federal law.
(B) A franchisee shall use equipment generally used in high-quality, reliable, modern systems of similar design, including, but not limited to, back-up power supplies at the fiber nodes and headends capable of providing power to the system for a minimum of two hours in the event of an electrical outage, plus adequate portable generators to cover longer outages. The obligation to provide backup power supplies requires the franchisee to install equipment that will cut in automatically on failure of commercial utility AC power, revert automatically to commercial power when it is restored, and prevent the standby power source from powering a “dead” utility line. In addition, the design and construction of a system shall include modulators, antennas, amplifiers and other electronics that permit and are capable of passing through the signal received at the headend with minimal alteration or deterioration.
(1993 Code, § 72.083) (Ord. 96-12, passed 10-16-1996) Penalty, see § 72.999