(A) The franchisee shall serve all residents of the municipality except to the extent that low household density, adverse terrain or other factors render providing service impracticable or technically or economically infeasible. The franchisee’s cable television system shall not be required to be installed in, or extend to, areas of municipality where potential revenues from subscribers to be served therein would produce a return insufficient to justify economically such installation or extension.
(B) If otherwise practicable and technically feasible:
(1) Service shall be provided at normal installation and monthly service rates to an individual customer whose point of connection is located within 150 feet of in-place distribution cable;
(2) The franchisee, at its cost, shall make an extension of its cable system where the number of existing households per linear mile of cable to be passed by the extension equals or exceeds 20 households passed per linear mile; and
(3) The franchisee shall be required to make an extension where the number of existing households to be passed per mile is more than 20. The franchisee, however, shall not be required to install or extend its cable system in any areas where it cannot obtain necessary rights-of-way over private property except in those instances where the payment to third parties to obtain the corresponding one mile right-of-way would be less than one-third of franchisee’s annual average cost per mile of overhead construction during the last two years, plus a pro rata amount of such cost for each existing household passed over 20.
(Ord. 91, passed 12-10-1991)