(A) Grantee shall not deny service, deny access, or otherwise discriminate against subscribers, channel users, or general citizens on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex or marital status. Grantee shall comply at all times with all other applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to nondiscrimination. However, nothing in this chapter or the franchise shall limit the right of the grantee to deny service to any household or individual who has a negative credit or service history with the grantee, which may include non-payment of bills or theft or damage to grantee's equipment, or who has threatened or assaulted employees of the grantee in the course of their employment. In cases of bad or negative credit, grantee may require the payment of a deposit.
(B) Grantee shall adhere to the applicable equal employment opportunity requirements of federal, state and local regulations, as now written or as amended from time to time.
(C) Without a lawful court order or applicable valid legal authority, neither grantee, nor any person, agency, or entity shall, without the subscriber's consent, tap, or arrange for the tapping, of any cable, line, signal input device, or subscriber outlet or receiver for any purpose except routine maintenance of the system, detection of unauthorized service, polling with audience participation, or audience viewing surveys to support advertising research regarding viewers where individual viewing behavior cannot be identified.
(D) In the conduct of providing its cable services or in pursuit of any collateral commercial enterprise resulting therefrom, grantee shall take reasonable steps to prevent the invasion of a subscriber's or general citizen's right of privacy or other personal rights through the use of the system as such rights are delineated or defined by applicable law. The grantee shall not without lawful court order or other applicable valid legal authority utilize the system's interactive two-way equipment or capability, if such equipment or capability exists, for unauthorized personal surveillance of any subscriber or general citizen.
(E) No cable line, wire amplifier, converter, or other piece of equipment owned by grantee shall be installed by grantee in the subscriber's premises, other than in appropriate easements, without first securing any required consent. If a subscriber requests service, permission to install upon subscriber's property shall be deemed granted.
(F) Grantee shall comply with all laws and regulations regarding subscriber privacy including, but not limited to, Section 631 of the Cable Act (47 U.S.C. 551).
(Ord. 1048, passed 1-22-02)