Conn. Agencies Regs. § 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.
Notes
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