Pasadena Municipal Code Ch. 18.02 General Provisions

This chapter is known and may be cited as the "Cable, Video, and Telecommunications Service Providers Ordinance" of the city of Pasadena.

(Ord. 6827 § 3 (part), 2000)

A. The city council finds and determines as follows:

1. The development of cable, video and telecommunications 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, video and telecommunications services and systems, the public convenience, safety and general welfare can best be served by establishing regulatory powers to be exercised by the city.

3. This title adopts provisions that authorize the city to regulate cable, video and telecommunications 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 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, video and telecommunications services that are addressed in the ordinance codified in this title include services provided by cable television systems, open video systems, master antenna television systems, satellite master antenna television systems, direct broadcast satellite systems, multichannel multipoint distribution-systems, local multipoint distribution systems and other providers of video programming, whatever their technology, as well as voice and date services provided by telephone corporations.

B. The purpose and intent of this title 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 authorize and to manage reasonable access to the city's public rights-of-way and public property for cable, video and telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis;

3. 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;

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

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

6. To encourage the profitable deployment of advanced cable, video and telecommunications infrastructures that satisfy local needs, deliver enhanced government services and provide informed consumer choices in an evolving cable, video and telecommunications marketplace.

(Ord. 6827 § 3 (part), 2000)

Various terms and phrases used in this title are defined in Section 18.10.010 of Chapter 18.10.

(Ord. 6827 § 3 (part), 2000)