(a) The Company shall not deny service, deny access or otherwise discriminate against subscribers, channel users, or general citizens on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, or sex. The Company 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) The Company shall strictly adhere to the equal employment opportunity requirements of the FCC, State statutes and local regulations, and as amended from time to time.
(c) No signals transmitted from a subscriber terminal shall be monitored by the Company in order to determine patterns or practices without the express written permission of the subscriber. 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. 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 subscriber. No penalty shall be invoked for a subscriber's failure to provide or renew such an authorization. This statement must be in authorization. The authorization shall be revokable at any time by the subscriber without penalty of any kind whatsoever. Such authorization is required for each type or classification of cable communication activity planned; provided however, that the Company shall be entitled to conduct systemwide or individually addressed "sweeps" for the purpose of verifying system integrity, controlling return-path transmission, or billing for pay services.
(d) The Company, or any of its agents or employees, shall not sell, or other- wise make available to any party:
(1) Lists of the names and addresses of subscribers; or
(2) Any list which identifies the viewing habits of individual subscribers.
This section does not prohibit the Company from providing composite ratings of subscriber viewing to any party.
(e) The Village shall not prohibit or limit any program or class or type of program or otherwise censor the communications or signals by the Company or other parties over the cable communications system, other than programs on the designated government access channel or channels, and shall not promulgate any regulation or condition which would interfere with the right of free speech by means of cable communication.
(f) The Company shall not prohibit or limit any program or class or type of program presented over any channel made available for public access, educational access, government access or leased access purposes subject, however, to the access rules as submitted in the Company proposal. (Ord. 12-83. Passed 2-15-83.)