Connecticut General Statutes 16-333f – Programming and rate changes. Regulatory authority. Industry cooperation
(a) Each community antenna television company shall inform the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, each subscriber, the chairpersons of the joint standing committee having cognizance of matters relating to public utilities and the chairperson of the company’s advisory council of any planned programming or rate changes not less than thirty days unless otherwise required by federal law prior to implementing such changes unless (1) such changes are required by law to be made in less than thirty days, or (2) the authority prescribes a longer or shorter notice period in appropriate circumstances where such longer or shorter notice period is in the best interest of the company’s subscribers. The company’s advisory council may hold an advisory public hearing concerning the planned changes and may then make a recommendation to the company prior to the planned implementation date. The authority shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this subsection.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-333f
- Authority: means the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and "department" means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Community antenna television company: includes every person owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling a community antenna television system, in, under or over any public street or highway, for the purpose of providing community antenna television service for hire and shall include any municipality which owns or operates one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of electricity pursuant to section 7-213 or any special act and seeks to obtain or obtains a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct or operate a community antenna television system pursuant to section 16-331 or a certificate of cable franchise authority pursuant to section 16-331q. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Consumer: means any private dwelling, boardinghouse, apartment, store, office building, institution, mechanical or manufacturing establishment or other place of business or industry to which water is supplied by a water company. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Video programming: means programming provided by, or generally considered comparable to programming provided by, a television broadcast station. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
(b) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall file a written certification with the Federal Communications Commission for designation as the franchising authority exercising the regulatory authority permitted under the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, P.L. 102-385.
(c) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall encourage cooperation between community antenna television companies and local television broadcast stations in order to further the public interest concerning the provision of video programming and community antenna television services, thus ensuring the widest possible range of programming choices for all residents of the state at the lowest possible cost to all residents of the state.