Connecticut General Statutes 16-333i – Procedures for restoring interrupted service and improving substandard service
(a) Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, for the purpose of restoring interrupted service and improving substandard service, have on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, one or more persons qualified to repair community antenna television systems, as defined in section 16-1, and facilities and equipment owned by the company and located on a subscriber’s premises, including but not limited to, community antenna television receiving equipment and directly associated equipment.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-333i
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- 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
- Public service company: includes electric distribution, gas, telephone, pipeline, sewage, water and community antenna television companies and holders of a certificate of cable franchise authority, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling plants or parts of plants or equipment, but shall not include towns, cities, boroughs, any municipal corporation or department thereof, whether separately incorporated or not, a private power producer, as defined in section 16-243b, or an exempt wholesale generator, as defined in 15 USC 79z-5a. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
(b) Each such company shall restore interrupted service not later than twenty-four hours after being notified by a subscriber that service has been interrupted, unless (1) service cannot be restored until another public service company, as defined in section 16-1, repairs facilities owned by such public service company and leased to, or required for the operation of, the community antenna television company, (2) the interruption was caused by an act of God, or (3) the community antenna television company is unable to restore service within twenty-four hours due to extenuating circumstances. In the event of such extenuating circumstances, the company shall restore service as soon as feasible and then submit a written notice to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority indicating that service has been restored and explaining the nature of the extenuating circumstances.
(c) As used in this section, “interrupted service” means the loss of premium or basic monthly community antenna service or any portion of such service.
(d) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, not later than November 1, 1984, shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, defining “substandard service” for the purposes of this section.