Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 333 - Construction and Maintenance Standards and Terms and Conditions of Operation of Community Antenna Television Systems › Part I - Definitions › Section 16-333-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
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.