Ordinance 2613-02 - Laserfiche WebLink

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural include the singular, and words in the singular include the plural. Words not defined shall be given their common and ordinary meaning. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. 1.1 "Access" means the availability for noncommercial use by various agencies, institutions, organizations, groups and individuals in the community, including the City and its designees, of the Cable System to acquire, create, receive, and distribute Cable Services as permitted under applicable law including,but not limited to: a. "Educational Access" means Access where schools are the primary users having editorial control over programming and services. b. "Government Access" means Access where governmental institutions or their designees are the primary users having editorial control over programming and services. 1.2 "Access Channel" means any Channel, or portion thereof, designated for Access purposes or otherwise made available to facilitate or transmit Access programming or services. 1.3 "Activated" means the status of any capacity or part of the Cable System in which any Cable Service requiring the use of that capacity or part is available without further installation of system equipment,whether hardware or software, other than subscriber premises equipment. 1.4 "Affiliate," when used in connection with Grantee,means any Person who owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with Grantee. 1.5 "Bad Debt" means amounts lawfully billed to a Subscriber and owed by the Subscriber for Cable Service and accrued as revenues on the books of Grantee, but not collected after reasonable efforts have been made by Grantee to collect the charges. 1.6 "Basic Service" means the Cable Service Tier which includes, at a minimum, the retransmission of local television Broadcast Signals and Access Channels. 1.7 "Broadcast Signal" means a television or radio signal transmitted over the air to a wide geographic audience, and received by a Cable System by antenna, microwave, satellite dishes or any other means. 1.8 "Cable Act" means the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 as amended by the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as any of them maybe amended. Page 7 of 58