Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-333h

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.
Section 16-333h - Extension of service to schools. Instructional channels
(a) Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, shall, not later than the date it extends energized trunk and feeder to all areas within its franchise territory in which there are at least twenty-five prospective subscribers per aerial plant mile of extension and fifty prospective subscribers per underground plant mile of extension, extend such trunk and feeder to public and private elementary and secondary schools in such franchise areas and offer one instructional television channel as part of its basic service. Each such company may utilize such instructional television channel for noninstructional television programming during any time when the channel is not needed for instructional programming. No such company shall be required to offer the instructional television channel on or after July 1, 1995, unless the Commission for Educational Technology certifies to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority that educational agencies in the company's franchise area have utilized the instructional television channel to provide, during the school year, an average of not less than twenty hours per week of credit and noncredit instructional programming, programming supporting school curricula and programming for professional development.
(b) The joint committee on educational technology shall be responsible for the utilization of instructional television channels provided in whole or in part by community antenna television companies.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-333h

(P.A. 83-584, S. 1, 3; P.A. 85-509, S. 8, 11; P.A. 88-52, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-79, S. 2; P.A. 91-303, S. 10, 22; P.A. 92-146, S. 2, 5; P.A. 98-121, S. 10; P.A. 00-187, S. 53, 75; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)