Sec.16-331a-2. Number of community access channels required

(a) Each franchise holder shall maintain at least one specially designated channel to be used for community access. The franchise holder may use any such access channel for any other purpose whenever that channel's time has not been contracted for use for public access. Any conflict in time for use between community access or other use shall be resolved in favor of community access. The franchise holder shall keep a record, available for public inspection, of the requests for and use of access channel time. Such records must be retained for not less than two years.

(b) When the activated access channel capacity is in use for community access purposes during 80 percent of any consecutive five hour period Monday-Friday, for six consecutive weeks, the franchise holder shall, within six months, activate an additional channel for access use, provided, however, that this requirement shall not necessitate the rebuilding of a system or elimination of any existing services, and further provided that in no case shall the number of mandated access channels exceed ten per cent of the total channel capacity of the system.

(Effective September 26, 1996)