Senate Bill No. 271–Senator Titus

February 26, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Requires community antenna television companies to provide public access channels in certain areas. (BDR 58-801)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to community antenna television companies; requiring such companies to provide a public access channel in certain areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. Chapter 711 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2 new section to read as follows:

1-3 1. A community antenna television company shall, in each city and

1-4 county in which it has been granted a franchise to operate a community

1-5 antenna television system, provide a public access channel for the use of

1-6 members of the general public at no charge on a first-come, first-served

1-7 nondiscriminatory basis.

1-8 2. A governing body shall include as a term and condition of each

1-9 such franchise a provision requiring such a public access channel.

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