Sec. 16-333. Regulations: Safety of operations, facility construction, system installation, community access channel, personal privacy protections, carriage of television broadcast signals, subscriber
Sec. 16-333. Regulations: Safety of operations, facility construction, system
installation, community access channel, personal privacy protections, carriage of
television broadcast signals, subscriber inquiries and complaints. (a) The Department of Public Utility Control may issue orders and regulations governing safety of
operations of community antenna television systems.
(b) The Department of Public Utility Control shall adopt regulations in accordance
with chapter 54 to: (1) Establish minimum construction and extension requirements
for underground community antenna television facilities in areas where underground
facilities of other public utilities already exist; (2) establish technical standards of performance for the installation of community antenna television systems, including standards for the drilling of holes and the location of such holes in buildings to be served.
(c) The Department of Public Utility Control shall adopt regulations in accordance
with chapter 54 requiring each community antenna television company to maintain at
least one specially designated, noncommercial community access channel available to
the public and establishing minimum standards for the equipment supplied by such
company for the community access programming and requirements concerning the
availability and operation of such channel.
(d) The department shall, not later than March 1, 1984, adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 (1) establishing personal privacy protections for community antenna television subscribers, including, but not limited to, standards for the types of
individually identifiable data that a community antenna television company may collect
on its subscribers, (2) requiring each such company to notify each of its subscribers of
such privacy protections and (3) prohibiting each company from disclosing such data
without the prior approval of the subscriber. The department shall incorporate the provisions of such regulations in each new or existing certificate of public convenience and
necessity issued under section 16-331.
(e) The Department of Public Utility Control shall adopt regulations in accordance
with chapter 54 incorporating the provisions of Subpart D of 47 CFR 76 in effect on
January 1, 1983, and applying to community antenna television companies.
(f) The Department of Public Utility Control shall adopt regulations (1) establishing
procedures to be followed by community antenna television companies in responding
to subscriber inquiries and complaints and (2) establishing standards, based on the number of subscriber complaints to the Department of Public Utility Control concerning
service provided by a community antenna television company, under which the department shall impose civil penalties on the company or initiate proceedings for the revocation of the company's franchise, provided nothing herein shall limit the authority of the
department under sections 16-10a and 16-41.
(g) The standards and procedures adopted pursuant to this section, subsection (d)
of section 16-331, section 16-333f, subsection (a) of section 16-333i and sections 16-333k to 16-333m, inclusive, shall be minimum standards of performance for community
antenna television companies and the Department of Public Utility Control may adopt
regulations in accordance with chapter 54 establishing higher standards of performance.
(1963, P.A. 425, S. 5; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-533, S. 3; P.A. 80-82; 80-482, S. 4, 40,
162, 345, 348; P.A. 83-33, S. 1, 2; 83-80, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-240, S. 2, 4; 84-546, S. 50, 173; P.A. 88-202, S. 2; P.A. 94-22,
S. 2; P.A. 98-121, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced
authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979;
P.A. 79-533 added Subsec. (b) re regulation of community antenna television systems; P.A. 80-82 added Subsec. (c) re
maintenance of public access channels; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department
and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 83-33 added Subsec. (d), requiring department
to adopt regulations re personal privacy protections; P.A. 83-80 was added editorially by the Revisors as Subsec. (e) re
incorporation of federal regulations re carriage of television broadcast signals; P.A. 84-240 added Subsec. (f) re inquiries
and complaints by subscribers and notices to subscribers; P.A. 84-546 confirmed action of the Revisors in adding P.A.
83-80, S. 1 as Subsec. (e); P.A. 88-202 deleted the provisions of Subsec. (f) detailing matters to be addressed in regulations
re subscriber inquiries and complaints and specifying information to be included with bills, i.e. company's telephone
number, DPUC's consumer assistance number and procedures when service is interrupted and added Subsec. (g) which
allows the department of public utility control to set higher standards of performance; P.A. 94-22 changed "public access"
to "community access" for consistency of reference in Subsec. (c); P.A. 98-121 made technical changes to Subsec. (g).