The cable television system shall be designed in accordance with the following:
(a) Cablecasting Capability. The licensee shall provide cable-casting capabilities and facilities in accordance with requirements of § 42.0532 of this Chapter and the license.
(b) Signal Quality. The signals produced by the system shall be of high quality throughout the system using commonly accepted industry standards whether in close proximity to the head-end or the farthest extension of the trunk line. licensee shall distribute in color those television signals which it receives in color. The system, as installed, shall be capable of passing standard black-and-white and color video channels with associated audio signals without material degradation and with no phase shift and no effect on color fidelity.
(c) Safety Requirements. The licensee shall at all times utilize professional care and shall design, install, and maintain in use, devices and methods aimed at prevention of failures and accidents which may cause damage, injury, or nuisance to the public. Construction practices shall be in conformance with all applicable sections of Federal and State Occupational Safety Acts and any amendments thereto, as well as other state and county safety codes, where applicable.
(d) Interconnection. The County may request the licensee to interconnect PEG channels of the cable television system with any and all other contiguous and compatible cable systems. Interconnection of system shall permit interaction transmission and reception of program material, and may be accomplished by direct cable connection, microwave link, satellite, or other technically feasible method. Each system component, whether as a part of a new system, as an extension of an existing system, or as a replacement for an existing system shall be designed to provide bi-directional interconnecting capability. Further, the system shall be designed to use the same broadcast spectrum frequency allocations for commonly provided television signals within the license area, so far as technically and economically feasible. In addition, every reasonable effort shall be made to provide local origination and access equipment which is compatible throughout the license area. The procedure relating to interconnection is set forth below:
(1) Upon receiving request of the County to interconnect, the licensee shall immediately initiate negotiations with other affected system(s), and shall report to the County the results of such negotiations no later than 60 days after initiation.
(2) Licensee may be granted additional reasonable extensions of time to interconnect, or the County may rescind its request to interconnect upon petition of the licensee, if the County finds that the licensee has negotiated in good faith and has failed to obtain approval from the system(s) of the proposed interconnection, or that the cost of interconnection would cause an unreasonable financial burden as determined by the License Review Board upon the licensee and/or its subscribers.
(3) The licensee shall cooperate with any interconnecting corporation, regional interconnection authority or city, County, State, or Federal regulatory agency which may hereafter be established for the purpose of regulating, financing, or otherwise providing for interconnection of cable systems beyond the boundaries of the license area.
(e) Emergency Override. The licensee shall incorporate into its cable television system the capability to permit the County in times of emergency to override the audio portion of all channels simultaneously. In addition, the licensee may be required to designate a channel, which may be a PEG channel, to be used for emergency broadcasts of both audio and video. The licensee shall cooperate with the County in the use and operation of the emergency alert override system.
(f) Technical Documentation. Upon request of the Director, licensee shall provide technical documentation of the cable television system as installed. Such documentation shall include, but is not limited to, head-end equipment and location, satellite receiving antenna location, and technical parameters, and the primary cable routing, but need not include each subscriber drop.
(Ord. 1281, passed - -1966; Am. Ord. 2053, passed - -1976; Am. Ord. 2667, passed - -1982; Am. Ord. 2754, passed - -1983; Am. Ord. 3440, passed - -1991)