After completion of the construction, installation and service schedule prescribed by Section 5.28.950 of this chapter, as that schedule may be modified pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.28.1110 through 5.28.1140 of this chapter, each franchisee may, within its franchise area, extend its cable television system beyond the service areas described in the franchise documents, and shall so extend its system pursuant to the following requirements:
A. The franchisee shall extend the cable television system and make basic service and other services identified pursuant to Section 5.28.1280 of this chapter and in Article VI of this chapter, available to every dwelling unit within any area reaching the minimum density of at least forty (40) dwelling units per street mile, or five dwelling units within six hundred sixty (660) feet, as measured from the existing system.
B. The franchisee shall extend the cable television system and make basic service and other services identified pursuant to Section 5.28.1280 of this chapter, available to any isolated resident outside the service area, requesting connection at the standard connection charge, if the connection to the isolated resident would require no more than a standard one hundred fifty (150) foot aerial drop line.
With respect to requests for connection requiring an aerial drop line in excess of one hundred fifty (150) feet, the franchisee shall extend the cable television system and make available such services to such residents at a connection charge not to exceed the actual installation costs incurred by the franchisee for the distance exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet plus an administrative charge of ten (10) percent of said amount to cover overhead costs.
C. Whenever the franchisee shall have received written requests for services from at least fifteen (15) assured subscribers within one thousand three hundred (1,300) cable feet of its aerial trunk cable, it shall extend its cable television system to such subscribers solely for the usual connection and service fees for all subscribers, provided that such extension is technically and economically feasible. The one thousand three hundred (1,300) cable feet shall be measured in extension length of the franchisee's cable required for service located within the street and shall not include the length of necessary drop to the subscriber's house or premises.
When a cable television system is extended from the boundaries of an imposed service area the standards for the system so extended including, but not limited to, channel capacity, number of cables and other functional and technological features of the system shall be the same as are applicable to the system within the imposed service area, the services provided through the system so extended shall be the same as are provided within the imposed service area, and the rates and charges associated with basic service (if the franchisee has proposed restrictions upon such rates and charges pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5.28.1590 through 5.28.1630 of this chapter) shall be the same as rates and charges associated with basic service within the imposed service area. When a cable television system is extended from the boundaries of a proposed service area the standards for the system so extended including, but not limited to, channel capacity, number of cables and other functional and technological features of the system shall be the same as are applicable to the system within the proposed service area from which extension is made, the services provided through the system so extended shall be the same as are provided within the proposed service area from which extension is made, and the rates and charges associated with basic service (if the franchisee has proposed restrictions upon such rates and charges pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5.28.1590 through 5.28.1630 of this chapter) shall be the same as rates and charges associated with basic service within the proposed service area from which extension is made. (Prior code § 20.05.424)