Title 34 — Public Utilities.

(a) A cable operator shall take all steps necessary to ensure that it is able to provide the District all information that must be provided or may be requested under this chapter or the franchise agreement, including providing appropriate subscriber privacy notices. A cable opera…

(a) The District shall have the right to inspect the records of a cable operator and to require a cable operator to provide copies of records that the District deems appropriate in order to monitor compliance with this chapter, the franchise agreement, or any other applicable law…

A cable operator shall submit to the Office copies of all correspondence, petitions, reports, applications, and other documents between the cable operator and federal agencies having appropriate jurisdiction in matters affecting cable operation, or any District agencies within 10…

(a) All proposed rates and service offerings for cable service shall be specified in an appendix to the franchise agreement. (b) A cable operator shall provide a notice of any planned change in rates or services to the Office at least 30 days before the change. (c) The Office may…

(a) The cable operator shall publish and make available to each potential subscriber a schedule of all applicable fees and charges for providing cable service and shall notify subscribers that basic cable service is available. (b) A cable operator shall not, with regard to fees, …

(a) Within 10 days after the submission of a report or other document to any federal or District agency or commission, or after such shorter period as may be established in a franchise agreement, the cable operator shall file a copy of the document with the Office. Documents requ…

(a) A cable operator shall comply with all federal and District customer service regulations and with all customer service standards contained in the franchise agreement. (b) A cable operator shall maintain at least one office within the District, which shall be open and accessib…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1) “Personally identifiable information” does not include any record of aggregate data which does not identify particular persons. (2) “Cable operator” includes, in addition to persons within the definition of cable operator in § 3…

(a) No landlord of a residential property shall: (1) Interfere with the installation, operation, upgrade, or maintenance of cable television facilities upon a property or premises, except that a landlord may require that: (A) The installation of cable television facilities confor…

(a) A cable operator shall not refuse to hire or employ, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against any person for any reason provided in Unit A of Chapter 14 of Title 2. (b) The provisions of the Human Rights Act shall apply to a cable operator.

(a) In order to maximize opportunities for minority employment and participation in the cable television industry, each cable operator shall make a positive and good faith effort to establish employment goals and timetables designed to achieve minority representation equal to the…

Except as otherwise provided in a cable franchise agreement, a cable operator’s employee workforce and subcontractors shall consist of not less than 51% District residents.

(a) A cable operator shall not be excused from complying with any of the terms and conditions of this chapter or the franchise agreement, as a result of any failure of the District, upon any one or more occasions, to insist upon the cable operator’s performance or to seek the cab…

Whenever this chapter or the franchise agreement sets forth a time for an act to be performed by or on behalf of the cable operator, the time shall be deemed of the essence and the cable operator’s failure to perform within the time provided shall, in all cases, be sufficient gro…

(a) Whenever a cable operator shall willfully or repeatedly fail, refuse, or neglect to conduct or operate its cable system in accordance with the terms of this chapter or the franchise, or to comply with the conditions of the use of the public rights-of-way, or in other ways vio…

The cable operator and all users of the cable system shall comply with all federal laws regarding obscenity on cable television and all District laws regarding obscenity.

(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Cable service” means a cable system that has been granted a franchise to operate in the District, an Open Video System that is authorized to operate in the District, a Satellite Master Antenna Television System, Direct Broadcast Satellit…

The District expressly reserves the following rights: (1) To exercise its governmental powers, now or hereafter, to the full extent that the powers may be vested in or granted to the District. (2) To adopt, in addition to the provisions contained herein and in the franchise and i…

The Mayor, in accordance with the procedures of subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 shall issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.

(a) All appointments, rules, regulations, orders, administrative issuances, obligations, determinations, agreements, and understandings made, established, issued, promulgated, or entered into under the authority of subchapter I of this chapter [repealed], shall remain in effect u…

(a) All appointments, rules, regulations, orders, administrative issuances, obligations, determinations, and agreements made, established, issued, promulgated, or entered into by the Office of Cable Television or the Office of Motion Picture and Television Development shall remai…