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 Collier County
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 30. CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
 Article II. CATV FRANCHISES

  § 30-41. Service requirements.  

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  • (a)

    System capability.

    (1)

    The franchisee's cable distribution system of a franchise granted pursuant to this article shall be capable of carrying at least 54 television channels and FM radio to each subscriber.

    (2)

    Each such franchisee shall at all times provide programming on a minimum of 30 channels and shall provide on its basic service, programming on a minimum of 12 channels, unless otherwise preempted by the FCC, and provided that such programming is available. Each franchisee shall make available without charge to the county unlimited time on at least one local government access channel.

    (3)

    The franchisee shall extend cable television service to any building within the county which is located on property within 150 feet of any portion of the distribution facilities of the franchisee's existing plant at the time of application for service. Such extension shall be made within 60 calendar days after receipt of a legitimate written request for such service. There shall, however, be no obligation on the part of the franchisee to extend cable service beyond 150 feet from existing distribution facilities unless there is a density of at least 35 homes per street or road mile contiguous to the existing plant. Provided, however, the franchisee shall serve any building in excess of 150 feet if the owner of said building is willing to pay the actual cost of the service extension to such building.

    (b)

    Lock-out devices. The franchisee shall make available, to any residential subscriber so requesting, a "parental guidance" or "lock-out" device which shall permit the subscriber, at his or her option, to eliminate the audio and visual aspects from any channel reception. The franchisee shall annually advise all residential subscribers regarding the availability of this device, and an additional reasonable charge for any such device may be imposed.

    (c)

    Denial of service. The franchisee may deny service to any subscriber where such subscriber has previously been a subscriber of the franchisee and the franchisee previously terminated subscriber's service due to nonpayment.

    (d)

    Emergency use of facilities. The franchisee shall install and maintain an audio override capacity on all channels for transmission of emergency messages and alerts and shall provide for character-generated "crawl" information to be superimposed for the hearing impaired on all video channels. In the case of any emergency or disaster, as determined by the county, franchisees shall, upon request of the county, make the override capacity available to the county without charge for use during emergency or disaster period. All CATV operators in the unincorporated areas of the county who possess a valid, current franchise, that is in good standing, to operate a CATV operation as of November 23, 1988 shall not be required to provide "crawl" information on more than one identified and designated channel until such time as the current franchise expires, is transferred or renewed.

(Ord. No. 88-90, § 16)