Santa Ana Municipal Code § 15-253 Defined terms and phrases

This article is known and may be cited as the "Cable and Video Service Providers Ordinance" of the City of Santa Ana.

(Ord. No. NS-2468, 6-4-01)

(a) The city council finds and determines as follows:

(1) The development of cable and video services and systems may provide significant benefits for, and have substantial impacts upon, the residents of the city.

(2) Because of the complex and rapidly changing technology associated with cable and video services and systems, the public convenience, safety, and general welfare is best served by the city's exercise of its regulatory powers.

(3) This article adopts provisions that authorize the city to regulate cable and video service providers to the extent authorized by federal and state law, including but not limited to the Federal Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, the Federal Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, applicable regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, and applicable California statutes and regulations.

(4) The cable and video services that are addressed in this article include services provided by cable television systems, open video systems, master antenna television systems, satellite master antenna television systems, and other providers of video programming, whatever their technology.

(b) The purpose and intent of this article is to provide for the attainment of the following objectives:

(1) To enable the city to discharge its public trust in a manner consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition, and technological development.

(2) To obtain fair and reasonable compensation for the city and its residents for authorizing the private use of the public rights-of-way and public property.

(3) To promote competition in cable and video services, minimize unnecessary local regulation of cable and video service providers, and encourage the delivery of advanced and competitive cable and video services on the broadest possible basis to local government and to the businesses, institutions, and residents of the city.

(4) To establish clear local guidelines, standards, and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of cable and video service providers.

(5) To encourage the deployment of advanced cable and video infrastructure that satisfies local needs, delivers enhanced government services, and provides informed consumer choices in an evolving cable and video marketplace.

(6) To maintain and to enhance public, educational, and governmental programming opportunities that will enable local government to communicate with its residents and to provide its residents with alternate means of disseminating information.

(Ord. No. NS-2468, 6-4-01)

Various terms and phrases used in this article are defined below in section 15-268 of division 6.

(Ord. No. NS-2468, 6-4-01)