{"data":{"id":"us/47-cfr-76.701","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"47 CFR 76.701","heading":"Leased access channels.","body":"(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.\n(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.\nNote to paragraph (b):\n“Nudity” in paragraph (b) is interpreted to mean nudity that is obscene or indecent.","path":["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"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-47.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:28Z","sha256":"eaa7407786f1f028df93045334ebc2e253f5c02ca023704e16406750a5cebac7","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/47-cfr-76.640","next":"us/47-cfr-76.702"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}