(A) When not otherwise prescribed herein, all matters herein required to be filed with the county shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
(B) The grantee shall, without charge, provide all subscriber services of its system, including a multiple connection service to all public and non-profit private schools, county Sheriff’s offices and substations, county fire stations, county recreation centers and such other buildings owned or controlled by the county, which shall, from time to time, be designated by the Board of Supervisors, provided the buildings are located within the service area or areas of any franchise granted to the grantee under this chapter, or within the service area or areas of any other franchise granted to the grantee within the county, including incorporated areas thereof, by any other legislative body or agency thereof. The grantee shall install, without charge to the county or the public or private schools, up to 200 feet of service connection from the transmission cable otherwise maintained or required to be maintained by the grantee for the service of paying subscribers of the grantee. The county, or any such public or private schools shall pay to the grantee the costs of all labor and materials supplied by the grantee for the installation of any service connection in excess of the initial 200 feet.
(C) In the case of any emergency or disaster, the grantee shall, upon request of the Board of Supervisors, make available its facilities to the county for emergency use during the emergency or disaster period.
(D) The grantee shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the business of selling, leasing, renting, furnishing, providing, repairing or servicing any television, radio or other receiving apparatus or any component part thereof within the county, and such prohibition shall extend and apply to the officers and directors of the grantee, to all general and limited partners of the grantee, to any person or combination of persons owning, holding or controlling 5% or more of any corporate stock or other ownership interest of the grantee, or any affiliated or subsidiary entity, owned or controlled by the grantee, or in which any officer, director, stockholder, general or limited partner or person or group of persons holding or controlling any ownership interest in the grantee, shall own, hold or control 5% or more of any corporate stock or other ownership interest; and the prohibition shall likewise apply to any person, firm or corporation acting or serving in the capacity of a holding or controlled company of the grantee.
(E) The grantee shall be prohibited from deleting, revising, adding to or substituting any program of any television or FM radio broadcast station carried by the grantee, whether with or without the consent of the station, without the prior written approval for good cause shown of the Board of Supervisors and then only upon such terms as the Board of Supervisors shall prescribe.
(F) The grantee shall maintain an office within the county so that CATV maintenance service shall be promptly available to subscribers upon telephone request.
(G) No person, firm or corporation in the existing service area of the grantee shall be arbitrarily refused service; provided, however, that the grantee shall not be required to provide service to any subscriber who does not pay the applicable connection fee or monthly service charge.
(H) (1) Before the grantee shall provide service to any subscriber, the grantee shall obtain a signed contract from the subscriber containing a provision substantially as follows:
“Subscriber understands that in providing service grantee is to make use of public rights-of-way within the county, and that the continued use of these public rights-of-way is in no way guaranteed. In the event the continued use of such rights-of-way is denied to grantee for any reason, grantee will make every reasonable effort to provide service over alternate routes. Subscriber agrees he or she will make no claim nor undertake any action against the county, its officers, its employees or grantee if a service to be provided by grantee hereunder is interrupted or discontinued because the continued use of the rights-of-way, is denied to grantee for any reason.”
(2) The form of the grantee’s contract with its subscribers shall be subject to approval of the District Attorney with respect to the inclusion of this provision.
(I) The grantee shall limit failures to a minimum by locating and correcting malfunctions promptly, but in no event longer than 24 hours after notice.
(J) The grantee shall render efficient service, make repairs promptly and interrupt service only for good cause and for the shortest time possible. The interruptions insofar as possible shall be preceded by notice and shall occur during periods of minimum use of the system.
(K) The grantee shall comply with all rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission as they may be here applied, for the carriage and non-duplication protection of television stations and shall, within limitations as to its general capacity and the technical availability thereof, carry all television signals serving the general area.
(L) Upon termination of service to any subscriber, the grantee shall promptly remove all its facilities and equipment from the premises of the subscriber upon his or her request.
(1966 Code, § 6A-25) (Ord. 312, § 25; Ord. 967, §§ 3, 4, 2018; Ord. 968, §§ 3, 4, 2018)