Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330
Definition
Section 16-330 is repealed.
General Statutes of Connecticut Chapter 289 — Broadband Internet Access Service Providers, Community Antenna Television Systems and Competitive Video Service Providers
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Provisions
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330a
Definitions
As used in this section, section 16-49 and 16-330b to 16-330g, inclusive: (1) “Broadband Internet access service” means a mass-market retail service by wire that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330b
Broadband Internet access service map
(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, in accordance with sections 4d-90 and 4-67p and in consultation with other state agencies deemed appropriate by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, develop and maintain an up-to-date broadband map, with accompanying data, showing the availability and adop…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330c
Broadband Internet access service grant program. Report. Report to Governor
(a) On or before January 1, 2022, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish and administer a grant program, subject to the availability of federal funding, to support the deployment of broadband Internet access service. The commissioner shall establish criteria consistent with any requirem…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330d
Federal funding opportunities for broadband Internet access service deployment. Notification
(a) The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall maintain, on the department's Internet web site, a public listing of federal funding opportunities to facilitate the deployment of broadband Internet access service in the state. (b) Not later than ninety days after each such opportunity is listed, each br…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330e
Access by broadband Internet service providers to occupied buildings
Each broadband Internet access service provider shall have the same right of access to an occupied building, as defined in section 16-247l, as afforded to certified telecommunications service providers under section 16-247l.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330f
State Building Code revisions. Minimum broadband Internet access service infrastructure requirements for new construction or major alterations of a commercial or multifamily building
The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall, in accordance with section 29-252b, revise the State Building Code to include provisions requiring buildings that qualify as a new construction or a major alteration of a commercial or multifamily building to include a minimum infrastructure requ…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-330g
Conduit excavations in the public highways, streets or other public right-of-way. Payment of fees. Authorization to lease space or enter into contractual agreements. Penalties
(a) On or before January 1, 2022, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate an uncontested proceeding to develop a process for the construction of facilities in the public highways, streets or other public rights-of-way to ensure timely and nondiscriminatory procedures that accomplish conduit excavations…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331
Certificate of public convenience and necessity. Advisory councils. Franchise terms. Regulations. Community needs assessment
(a) No person, association or corporation, or a municipality which owns or operates one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of electricity pursuant to section 7-213, shall construct or operate a community antenna television system without having first obtained a certificate of public convenience and nece…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331a
Community access programming and operations
(a) As used in this section, “multichannel video programming distributor” means a multichannel video programming distributor, as defined in 47 CFR 76.1300, as from time to time amended, and includes an owner of an open video system, as defined in 47 CFR 76.1500, as from time to time amended. (b) Each company or organiz…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331b
Members of community antenna advisory councils to serve without compensation
Members of community antenna advisory councils established pursuant to section 16-331 shall serve without compensation. For the purposes of this section compensation shall include the receipt of any free or discounted cable television service, either basic or premium.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331c
Community antenna television companies' contribution to community antenna advisory councils
Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, shall annually contribute to the advisory council in its franchise area an amount not less than two thousand dollars. A local advisory council may at its option receive any or all of its funding through in-kind services of the community antenna tele…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331d
Community antenna television advisory council vacancies and conflict of interest of members
(a) The chief elected official from the town in which a vacant seat exists on a community antenna television advisory council shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy if any other appointing authority fails to make an appointment within six months of the time in which a vacancy occurs. (b) No member of a community a…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331e
Certificate of video franchise authority
(a) An entity or person, other than a community antenna television company certified to provide community antenna television service pursuant to section 16-331 on or before October 1, 2007, or an affiliate, successor or assign of such community antenna television company, seeking to provide video service in the state o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331f
Certified competitive video service provider build-out requirements, rate regulation and service to multiunit residential buildings
(a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall not require a certified competitive video service provider to comply with any facility build-out requirements or provide video service to any customer using any specific technology. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a contested case proceeding,…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331g
Discrimination based on income prohibited
A certified competitive video service provider shall not deny access to service to any group of potential residential subscribers based solely upon the income of the residents in the local area in which such group resides. An affected person may seek enforcement of this requirement by filing a complaint with the Public…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331h
Certified competitive video service community access programming
(a) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the certified competitive video service provider begins offering service in a designated area pursuant to its certificate of video franchise authority, such provider shall provide capacity over its video service to allow community access programming, in its basic service…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331i
State-wide Video Advisory Council. Membership. Duties. Funding
(a) There shall be a State-wide Video Advisory Council, whose membership is made up of one representative from each of the existing advisory councils established pursuant to section 16-331. A certified competitive video service provider shall biannually convene a meeting of said council. No member of the State-wide Vid…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331j
Video service provider offerings, charges, privacy policy, billing and billing disputes
(a) At the time of initial subscription, and annually thereafter, or upon request, each certified competitive video service provider shall provide subscribers with a description of (1) the video service offerings and current rates, (2) the provider's credit policies, including any finance charges or late payment charge…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331k
Video programming and rate changes
(a) Except when otherwise required by federal law, a certified competitive video service provider shall inform the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of any planned programming or rate changes not less than thirty days before implementing such changes unless (1) such changes are required by law to be made in less th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331l
Interrupted video service
If video service provided by a certified competitive video service provider to a subscriber is interrupted for more than twenty-four continuous hours, such subscriber shall receive a credit or refund from the certified competitive video service provider in an amount that represents the proportionate share of such servi…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331m
Video service providers' closed captioning and emergency broadcast systems
(a) A certified competitive video service provider shall make closed captioning available when simultaneously broadcast with video signals carried by the provider. (b) A certified competitive video service provider shall offer the concurrent rebroadcast of local television broadcast channels, or utilize another economi…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331n
Free video service for libraries and schools
A certified competitive video service provider shall provide any library serving the public and any school system, college or university, located in a part of the certified competitive video service provider's franchise area where service is available, with one outlet for basic video service at no charge if such librar…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331o
Imposition of civil penalties by authority
A certified competitive video service provider, and its officers, agents and employees, shall comply with sections 16-331e to 16-331o, inclusive, and each applicable order made by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority pursuant to sections 16-331e to 16-331o, inclusive. Any certified competitive video service provid…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-331p
Certificate of cable franchise authority in franchise areas in which certified competitive video service providers are offering video service
(a) Thirty days after a certified competitive video service provider offers video service in a community antenna television company's existing franchise area pursuant to a certificate of video franchise authority, or thirty days after a municipal electric utility, its affiliate or subsidiary begins offering video servi…
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