(a) "Ancillary service" means any service provided to subscribers which is in addition to that defined as "basic service", which may include but is not limited to, premium (pay) programs, smoke detector service, fire alarm service, police alarm service, local origination programming, character generated signals and distant signal imports.
(b) "Approved" means approval by the Administrator under the requirements of this chapter as applied to a location, condition, technical standard or method of construction or approval by other authorities designated by law, ordinance or this chapter to give approval to the matter in question.
(c) "Basic service" means the simultaneous delivery by the operator to all subscribers' television receivers, or any other suitable type of audio-video communication receivers, a minimum of eleven channels of communications service, including but not limited to, all local television grade "A" broadcast signals, one channel of governmental information service or public access, three imported television broadcast signals, and a mix of character generated signals, additional imported signals or local origination programming.
(d) "Cable communications system" means any facility which performs for hire, either in whole or in part, the service of receiving, amplifying, modifying or originating television, radio or other electrical signals for the purpose of transmitting or distributing such signals by wire, cable or other means to subscribing members of the public, except that such definition shall not include:
(1) Any FCC licensed UHF or VHF broadcasting system;
(2) A facility servicing fewer than fifty subscribers;
(3) A facility serving only 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;
(4) A facility serving only an individual hotel or motel or only hotels and/or motels under the same ownership, control or management;
(5) A facility owned and operated by a nonprofit organization with service limited to the premises of such nonprofit organization;
(6) A facility which provides telephone or telegraph services for profit.
(e) "Basic subscriber revenue" means either all revenues or other consideration collected for subscribers, by or for the operator or his affiliated lessees, arising from the sale of the operator's basic service, or seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month for every first television set of a subscriber connected, and one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per month for every additional television set of a subscriber connected, whichever is greater.
(f) "Operator" means any person, persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation or association, or the assignee, affiliate, parent, subsidiary or successor of the operator, operating a cable communications system within the corporate limits of the Village.
(g) "Subscriber" means any person or entity within the Village receiving for any purpose any service of the operator including, but not limited to, the conventional cable system service of retransmission of television broadcast, radio signals, operator's original cablecasting, and the local government, education and public access channels and ancillary services, including but not limited to, special services from leased channels, data and facsimile transmission, pay television, and police, fire and similar public service communication.
(h) "Transmission and distribution", "carriage and/or utilization" and "origination" refer to methods, techniques and procedures in the operation of a cable communications system authorized or not prohibited by the Federal Communications Commission.
(Ord. 5-80. Passed 5-12-80; Ord. 14-2021. Passed 6-14-21.)