Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 289 - Broadband Internet Access Service Providers, Community Antenna Television Systems and Competitive Video Service Providers
Section 16-331d. - Community antenna television advisory council vacancies and conflict of interest of members.

(a) The chief elected official from the town in which a vacant seat exists on a community antenna television advisory council shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy if any other appointing authority fails to make an appointment within six months of the time in which a vacancy occurs.

(b) No member of a community antenna television advisory council appointed by the chief elected official of a municipality, the board of education or the public libraries shall be an employee of a community antenna television company. For the purposes of this subsection, an employee includes any person working full or part time or performing any subcontracting or consulting services for the company.
(P.A. 89-182, S. 3; P.A. 91-244, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 91-244 added a new Subsec. (b) prohibiting certain members of advisory councils from being employees of a cable company.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 16 - Public Service Companies

Chapter 289 - Broadband Internet Access Service Providers, Community Antenna Television Systems and Competitive Video Service Providers

Section 16-330. - Definition.

Section 16-330a. - Definitions.

Section 16-330b. - Broadband Internet access service map.

Section 16-330c. - Broadband Internet access service grant program. Report. Report to Governor.

Section 16-330d. - Federal funding opportunities for broadband Internet access service deployment. Notification.

Section 16-330e. - Access by broadband Internet service providers to occupied buildings.

Section 16-330f. - State Building Code revisions. Minimum broadband Internet access service infrastructure requirements for new construction or major alterations of a commercial or multifamily building.

Section 16-330g. - Conduit excavations in the public highways, streets or other public right-of-way. Payment of fees. Authorization to lease space or enter into contractual agreements. Penalties.

Section 16-331. - Certificate of public convenience and necessity. Advisory councils. Franchise terms. Regulations. Community needs assessment.

Section 16-331a. - Community access programming and operations.

Section 16-331aa. - Imposition of civil penalties by authority.

Section 16-331b. - Members of community antenna advisory councils to serve without compensation.

Section 16-331bb. - Municipal video competition trust account.

Section 16-331c. - Community antenna television companies' contribution to community antenna advisory councils.

Section 16-331cc. - Public, educational and governmental programming and education technology investment account. Tax. Penalty and interest. One-time transfer.

Section 16-331d. - Community antenna television advisory council vacancies and conflict of interest of members.

Section 16-331dd. - Municipal electric utilities' eligibility to be a certified competitive video service provider.

Section 16-331e. - Certificate of video franchise authority.

Section 16-331ee. - State-wide Community Antenna Television Advisory Council. Membership.

Section 16-331f. - Certified competitive video service provider build-out requirements, rate regulation and service to multiunit residential buildings.

Section 16-331ff. - Certain third-party nonprofit community access provider requirements re education and government access channels and town-specific community access programming.

Section 16-331g. - Discrimination based on income prohibited.

Section 16-331gg. - Funds for development of town-specific education and government community access programming. Distribution of funds. Report re disbursement of funds.

Section 16-331h. - Certified competitive video service community access programming.

Section 16-331hh. - Transfer from municipal video competition trust account to General Fund.

Section 16-331i. - State-wide Video Advisory Council. Membership. Duties. Funding.

Section 16-331ii. - Transfer from public, educational and governmental programming and education technology investment account to General Fund.

Section 16-331j. - Video service provider offerings, charges, privacy policy, billing and billing disputes.

Section 16-331k. - Video programming and rate changes.

Section 16-331l. - Interrupted video service.

Section 16-331m. - Video service providers' closed captioning and emergency broadcast systems.

Section 16-331n. - Free video service for libraries and schools.

Section 16-331o. - Imposition of civil penalties by authority.

Section 16-331p. - Certificate of cable franchise authority in franchise areas in which certified competitive video service providers are offering video service.

Section 16-331q. - Requirements for holders of certificates of cable franchise authority.

Section 16-331r. - Discrimination based on income prohibited.

Section 16-331s. - Holder of a certificate of cable franchise authority: Community access programming and operations.

Section 16-331t. - Holder of a certificate of cable franchise authority: Advisory council.

Section 16-331u. - Cable franchise authority companies' offerings, charges, privacy policy, billing and billing disputes.

Section 16-331v. - Cable franchise authority companies' programming and rate changes.

Section 16-331w. - Interrupted cable franchise authority service.

Section 16-331x. - Cable franchise authority companies' closed captioning and emergency broadcast systems.

Section 16-331y. - Free service for libraries and schools provided by holder of a certificate of cable franchise authority.

Section 16-331z. - Holder of a certificate of cable franchise authority subject to federal and state laws and regulations. Exceptions.

Section 16-332. - Leases by public service companies of facilities for community antenna purposes.

Section 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.

Section 16-333a. - Multiunit residential buildings service and wiring. Right to use antenna. Regulations for owner compensation. Civil penalty.

Section 16-333b. - Service to franchise area. Underground service lines.

Section 16-333c. - Availability of equipment for subscribers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Section 16-333d. - Discrimination among subscribers prohibited.

Section 16-333e. - Credit or refund for interrupted service.

Section 16-333f. - Programming and rate changes. Regulatory authority. Industry cooperation.

Section 16-333g. - Free basic service for libraries and schools.

Section 16-333h. - Extension of service to schools. Instructional channels.

Section 16-333i. - Procedures for restoring interrupted service and improving substandard service.

Section 16-333j. - Community access support. Investigation. Standards. Monitoring by advisory councils.

Section 16-333k. - Office operating requirements. Office hours. Complaint or dispute procedures.

Section 16-333l. - Company offerings and charges. Billing and billing dispute procedures.

Section 16-333m. - Limitations on charges for disconnection or downgrade of service.

Section 16-333n. - Penalty for reduction of community antenna television service without notice.

Section 16-333o. - Rate regulation of community antenna television systems.

Section 16-333p. - Broadcast television station markets. Request to Federal Communications Commission.