Source: https://development.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/34-1253.02.html
Timestamp: 2019-10-16 05:23:01
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D.C. Law Library - § 34–1253.02. Public Access Corporation.
↪ Part C. Other Cable Entities.
↪ § 34–1253.02. Public Access Corporation.
§ 34–1253.01. Cable Television Advisory Committee. [Repealed]
§ 34–1253.03. Public Service Commission regulation of the use of existing utility companies’ rights-of-way.
§ 34–1253.02. Public Access Corporation.
(a)(1) There shall be established, pursuant to the requirements of this chapter and in accordance with Chapters 1, 2, and 4 of Title 29, a nonprofit Public Access Corporation (“Corporation”) in the District for the purpose of facilitating and governing nondiscriminatory use by the public of those specifically designated and reserved noncommercial public access channels of a cable system.
(d) The Board of Advisors shall advise the Board of Directors and shall have the authority or responsibilities that the bylaws of the Corporation confer and as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. Each member of the Board of Advisors shall be a resident of the District of Columbia. To the extent possible, the membership of the Board of Advisors shall include representatives of public interest organizations, civil rights groups, the health and arts communities, labor organizations, business groups, consumers, educators, religious leaders, minorities, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons, persons with disabilities, and child advocates.
(i) The bylaws of the Corporation shall include a requirement that an annual report of all the Corporation’s activities, including a financial audit, be submitted to the Council for its information within 120 days of the end of each fiscal year of the Corporation.
(m) The Corporation’s management and use of public access channels shall not duplicate programming or services that the District may provide on government channels.
(o) All assets of the Corporation, including all facilities and monies dedicated to public access use by the District and the franchise agreement or open video system agreement, shall be deemed assets held by the Corporation in trust for the benefit of the citizens of the District for the purpose of developing and implementing the use and programming of public access channels. In the event of voluntary or involuntary dissolution of the Corporation, all assets of the Corporation shall revert to the District. In addition to all other lawful grounds, the Corporation may be dissolved involuntarily by a decree of the court in an action instituted by the Mayor, on the Mayor’s own initiative or at the request of the Council, in the name of the District when it is proven by a preponderance of the evidence that the Corporation has continued to exceed, abuse, or fail to fulfill the powers or purposes set forth in this chapter and the Corporation’s articles, has continued to exceed or abuse its bylaws, or has breached and continues to breach its fiduciary obligations to the citizens of the District. Any involuntary dissolution shall be undertaken pursuant to the notice and remedy provisions of § 29-301.53.
(Aug. 21, 1982, D.C. Law 4-142, § 302; as added Oct. 9, 2002, D.C. Law 14-193, § 2(b), 49 DCR 7334; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 49, 53 DCR 6198; July 2, 2011, D.C. Law 18-378, § 3(z), 58 DCR 1720; Oct. 22, 2015, D.C. Law 21-36, § 1026, 62 DCR 10905.)
This section is referenced in § 1-523.01, § 34-1252.02, and § 34-1264.05.
D.C. Law 16-305, in subsec. (d), substituted “persons with disabilities” for “handicapped persons”.
The 2015 amendment by D.C. Law 21-36 substituted “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons” for “gays and lesbians” in (d).
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 1026 of the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2015 (D.C. Act 21-127, July 27, 2015, 62 DCR 10201).