1. System Design. A cable system shall comply with the terms specified in the franchise agreement. Service shall be provided to subscribers in accordance with the schedules and line extension policies specified in Section 115.04 of this chapter. Cable system construction and provision of service shall be nondiscriminatory and grantee shall not delay or deter service to any section of the franchise area on the grounds of economic preference.
2. System Construction Schedule.
A. Grantee shall comply with the requirements of the system construction or upgrade schedule contained in the franchise agreement.
B. Grantee shall provide a detailed construction or upgrade plan indicating progress schedules, area construction maps, test plan, and projected dates for adding service. In addition, grantee shall update this information on a monthly basis, by submitting a copy of its normal internal progress reports, showing specifically whether schedules are being met and the reason for any delays.
3. All Channels Emergency Alert. The grantee shall, in the case of any emergency or disaster, make its entire system available without charge to the City or to any other governmental or civil defense agency that the City shall designate. The system shall be engineered to comply with the emergency alert system requirements of federal law and FCC regulations and the franchise agreement. The franchising authority shall hold the grantee, its agents, employees, officers, and assigns hereunder, harmless from any claims arising out of the emergency use of its facilities by the City, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
4. Power Outage. As specified in the franchise, the grantee will install a back-up generator at its head end that will provide the needed power to generate the head end in the event of a power outage.
5. Subscribers Control.
A. Switching Device. The grantee, upon request from any subscriber, shall install, at cost, a switching device to permit a subscriber to continue to utilize the subscriber’s television antenna. The grantee shall not require the removal (or offer to remove) any subscriber’s antenna lead-in wire.
B. Parental Control Devices. Grantee shall provide to subscribers, upon request, parental control devices that allow any channel or channels to be locked out. Such devices shall block both the video and audio portion of such channels to the extent that both are unintelligible. The lockout device described herein shall be made available to all subscribers requesting it, beginning on the first day that any cable service is provided.
6. Interconnection. The cable system shall be designed to be interconnected with other adjacent systems. At a minimum, the system shall be capable of interconnection with the access channel programming to other adjacent systems.