Texas Utilities Code
§ 66.009 — PUBLIC, EDUCATIONAL, AND GOVERNMENTAL ACCESS CHANNELS
UT § 66.009Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES · Ch. 66. STATE-ISSUED CABLE AND VIDEO FRANCHISE
Statute text
View on source(a)Not later than 120 days after a request by a municipality, the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority shall provide the municipality with capacity in its communications network to allow public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access channels for noncommercial programming.
(b)The holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority shall provide no fewer than the number of PEG access channels a municipality has activated under the incumbent cable service provider's franchise agreement as of September 1, 2005.
(c)If a municipality did not have the maximum number of PEG access channels as of September 1, 2005, as provided by Subdivisions (1) and (2) based on the municipality's population on that date, the cable service provider or video service provider shall furnish at the request of the municipality:
(1)up to three PEG channels for a municipality with a population of at least 50,000; and
(2)up to two PEG channels for a municipality with a population of less than 50,000.
(d)Any PEG channel provided pursuant to this section that is not utilized by the municipality for at least eight hours a day shall no longer be made available to the municipality, but may be programmed at the cable service provider's or video service provider's discretion. At such time as the municipality can certify to the cable service provider or video service provider a schedule for at least eight hours of daily programming, the cable service provider or video service provider shall restore the previously lost channel but shall be under no obligation to carry that channel on a basic or analog tier.
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Legislative history
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1077 (S.B. 1087), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2011.