[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Irwin 12-8-1993 by Ord. No. 792 (Ch. 1, Part 8, of the 1993 Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Borough of Irwin hereby ordains and enacts that, for the
purpose of regulating basic cable rates and services to customers
residing within the Borough of Irwin, enforcing Cable Act provisions
including, but not limited to, prohibiting cable operations from transferring
a system within 36 months after acquiring it, limiting the number
of subscribers that might be served by a multiple-system operator,
limiting the number of channels occupied on a system by a program
supplier in which the system operator has an interest, and prohibiting
operators and suppliers from engaging in unfair trade practices, the
Borough assigns jurisdiction over the regulation of rates and services
and those items listed above to a local commission board which shall
consist of the Borough of Irwin Council.
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
the following terms and their derivatives shall have the meanings
herein given (and when not inconsistent with the context, words used
in the present tense include the future tense, words in the plural
number include the singular, and words in the singular number include
the plural):
The tier of service regularly provided to all subscribers
that includes the retransmission of all must-carry broadcast television
signals as defined in §§ 76.55 to 76.61 of the FCC
Rules (or, in the absence of at least three must-carry signals, any
unaltered broadcast television signals) and the public, educational
and governmental channels, as required by the franchising authority
pursuant to Title VI of the Communications Act.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish a local commission
board within the Borough of Irwin which shall have jurisdiction over
and regulatory powers of the items listed hereinabove.
