47 CFR 76.701

§ 76.701 Leased access channels.

United States · 47 CFR — Telecommunication · Status: effective

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Citation: 47 CFR 76.701, § 76.701 Leased access channels, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/237116
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(a) Notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 532(b)(2) (Communications Act of 1934, as amended, section 612), a cable operator, in accordance with 47 U.S.C. 532(h) (Cable Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, section 10(a)), may adopt and enforce prospectively a written and published policy of prohibiting programming which, it reasonably believes, describes or depicts sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards. (b) A cable operator may refuse to transmit any leased access program or portion of a leased access program that the operator reasonably believes contains obscenity, indecency or nudity. “Nudity” in paragraph (b) is interpreted to mean nudity that is obscene or indecent.

Legislative history

This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.