(a) Applicants for each franchise shall be authorized, alternatively, to propose in their applications:
(1) No community use programming, by making no reference to community use programming therein; or
(2) To propose community use programming in the form of and in accordance with that as described by Section 11-1.903 of this article.
(b) An applicant who proposes community use programming in its application shall include in the application the following:
(1) Any standard of criteria which will be utilized in connection with the following matters:
(i) The time made available for and community use programming covering candidates for public elective offices during election campaigns;
(ii) Program quality control;
(iii) The legality of program content and the violation of the legal rights of others; and
(iv) Any and all pre-conditions of whatever kind or nature relating to use by third parties of studio facilities or production equipment and the broadcast of programming presented thereby; and
(2) The establishment of an independent body proposed by the applicant to administer PEG programming and community use programming other than PEG programming produced by a public agency. Such a body shall not include any officer or employee of the County or a cable communications area advisory committee; nor shall such body include the appointment of officers, employees, governing bodies, or boards or committees of the County. Once formed or created, the body also shall not include any grantee nor any appointee by a grantee or representative of a grantee. Any such proposal shall specifically identify the following representing such a body:
(i) The legal form of existence;
(ii) How the body will be established and who will be responsible for the establishment;
(iii) The size, composition, and method of selection and appointment of the members;
(iv) The terms of the members and the grounds and procedures for the removal of members, if any;
(v) The specific powers of the body in relation to the administration of community use programming and the means by which such will be exercised and enforced; and
(vi) The sources and amounts of funding for the support and operation of the body. (§ 1, Ord. 961, eff. October 27, 1983, as amended by § 9, Ord. 999, eff. March 7, 1985)