Sec.16-333-1. Definitions

As used in sections 16-333-1 to 16-333-54, inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies:

(1) "CATV" means any system operated in, under or over any street or highway for the purpose of providing community antenna television service for hire pursuant to a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Department;

(2) "Department" means the Department of Public Utility Control or its successor;

(3) "Municipality" means a town, city or borough, or any municipal corporation or department thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any utility plant within the state;

(4) "Franchising Authority" means the Department of Public Utility Control or its successor;

(5) "Community Antenna Television System" means a facility, consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception and control equipment that is designed to provide community antenna television service which includes video programming and which is provided in, under or over any public street or highway, for hire, to multiple subscribers within a franchise area, but such term does not include (A) a facility that serves only to retransmit the television signals of one or more television broadcast stations; (B) a facility that serves only subscribers in one or more multiple unit dwellings under common ownership, control or management, unless such facility is located in, under or over a public street or highway; (C) a facility of a common carrier which is subject, in whole or in part, to the provisions of title II of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, except that such facility shall be considered a Community Antenna Television System and the carrier shall be considered a public service company to the extent such facility is used in the transmission of video programming directly to subscribers; or (D) a facility of an electric distribution company which is used solely for operating its electric distribution company systems;

(6) "Community antenna television company" includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership or person, or lessee thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any community antenna television system, in, under or over any street or highway, for the purpose of providing community antenna television service for hire;

(7) "Franchise" means an initial authorization or renewal thereof issued by a franchising authority, whether such authorization is designated as a franchise, permit, license, resolution, contract, certificate, agreement or otherwise which authorizes the construction or operation of a community antenna television system;

(8) "Franchise holder" means the holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct or operate a community antenna television system issued by the Public Utility Control Authority;

(9) "Billing date" for the purpose of these regulations shall be the processing date of the bill;

(10) "Termination" for the purposes of these regulations shall be the intentional discontinuance by the community antenna television company of premium or basic service due to non payment of amounts due or other issues involving the subscriber;

(11) "Owner" means one or more persons, jointly or severally in whom is vested (A) all or part of the legal title to property; (B) all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises and including a mortgagee in possession; or (C) in the case of any multiunit residential building that is a condominium, co-operative, or other form of common ownership, any association of unit owners;

(12) "Multiunit residential building" means any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased or hired out to be occupied, or is arranged or designed to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home or residence of three or more families, living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, and having a common right in the halls, stairways or yards. For the purpose of these regulations, multiunit residential building shall include trailer parks, mobile home parks, condominiums and any other common ownership dwellings;

(13) "Instructional programming" means programming carried over the instructional channel as required pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16-333h of the Connecticut General Statutes; and

(14) "Educational programming" means programming generally considered to be educational in scope and in content, or provided by private independent educational programming producers, and any educational programming transmitted over public access channel provided by the franchise holder.

(Effective April 27, 1993; Amended August 23, 2000)