47 CFR 76.701: Leased access channels.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 47—Telecommunication
- CHAPTER I—FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
- SUBCHAPTER C—BROADCAST RADIO SERVICES
- PART 76—MULTICHANNEL VIDEO AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE
- Subpart L—Cable Television Access
(a) Notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 532(b)(2) (Communications Act of 1934, as amended, section 612), a cable operator, in accordance with 47 U.S.C. 532(h) (Cable Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, section 10(a)), may adopt and enforce prospectively a written and published policy of prohibiting programming which, it reasonably believes, describes or depicts sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards.
(b) A cable operator may refuse to transmit any leased access program or portion of a leased access program that the operator reasonably believes contains obscenity, indecency or nudity.
Note to paragraph (b):
“Nudity” in paragraph (b) is interpreted to mean nudity that is obscene or indecent.
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