US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  1063.  Cablecasting and broadcasting the public proceedings of city
  government. a. All future cable franchises and franchise renewals  shall
  require  (i)  that  channels be designated for governmental use and (ii)
  that the franchisee provide the interconnections necessary to allow  the
  cablecasting of the public proceedings of the council and its committees
  and the city planning commission.
    b.  The  council  and  its committees and the city planning commission
  shall make their public meetings and hearings available for cablecasting
  and broadcasting. The council, on the recommendation of  the  commission
  on  public  information and communication, may by local law require that
  other agencies of city government be subject to the requirements of this
  subdivision.
    c.  On  or  before  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  nineteen   hundred
  ninety-one, the commission on public information and communication shall
  submit to the council a proposal for cablecasting the public proceedings
  of the council and its committees and the city planning commission. Such
  proposal  shall  include  the commission's recommendations regarding (i)
  the organization or organizations to be responsible for  obtaining  such
  cablecasting  and  (ii)  funding  the start-up and ongoing costs of such
  cablecasting.