Grantee shall provide the initial services listed in the franchise agreement. Services shall not be reduced without 30 days prior notification to City.
(a)
A franchise application or proposal for renewal shall include a description of Grantee's system design and a description of programming and services being offered, including optional premium services, a description of facilities being proposed for local origination programming, and facilities being offered to various community institutions. The offer of programming and services contained within a Grantee's application shall be deemed a binding offer of such Grantee for and to the benefit of City and the subscribers of Grantee. In the event a program originator ceases to provide a service, or in the event Grantee determines that other programming or cable services may be of greater benefit to subscribers, Grantee may, subject to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, and upon 30 days prior written notice to City, substitute services. City may include categories of video programming or other services as franchise requirements as provided by the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984.
(b)
The system, after the incorporation of such substitute services, shall satisfy the warranties made by Grantee to subscribers and potential subscribers in its application for a franchise. The City Council shall have the right to review any actual or proposed substitution of service that Grantee has made or may make and may order a change therein if it determines, after a hearing, that any warranty has been violated, or that certain broad categories of video or other information programs that were committed by Grantee in its Proposal are not being delivered. Any such order shall issue only after a public hearing has been scheduled and held; and written notice of such hearing shall have been provided to Grantee and to the public at least 30 days prior to such hearing. Any such order may be enforced by an appropriate action in the courts of California or the United States. A Grantee shall not, in relation to this Section, be deemed to have waived any right accorded to a franchised cable television operator arising under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States or Article I, Section 2 of the California Constitution.
(c)
Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), Grantee may, in accordance with the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, upon 30 days prior written notice to City, rearrange, replace, or remove a particular cable service required by the franchise if:
(Prior code § 63040; added by Ord. No. 1407CCS, adopted 4/28/87)