§ A418-14. Public, educational and governmental access.

A. 

The Company shall continue to provide residents with a system-wide public access channel maintained by the Company. Qualified individuals and organizations may utilize public access for the purpose of cablecasting noncommercial access programming in conformance with the Company's published public access rules.

B. 

The Company shall continue to provide a system-wide leased access channel maintained by the Company for the purpose of cablecasting commercial access programming in conformance with the Company's guideline and applicable state and federal statutes and regulations.

C. 

The Company shall take any steps that are necessary to ensure that the signals originated on the access channels are carried without material degradation, and with a signal whose quality is equal to that of the other standard channels that the Company transmits.

D. 

The Communications Act of 1934, as amended [47 U.S.C. § 543(b)(4)], allows the Company to itemize and/or identify the amount on the monthly bill assessed to satisfy any requirements imposed on the Company by the cable franchise to support public, educational, and governmental channels, or the use of such channels or any other services required under the franchise. The Company reserves its external cost, pass-through rights to the extent permitted by law.