§ 76.806   Pre-termination access to cable home wiring.

   (a) Prior to termination of service, a customer may: install or provide for
   the installation of their own cable home wiring; or connect additional home
   wiring, splitters or other equipment within their premises to the wiring
   owned by the cable operator, so long as no electronic or physical harm is
   caused  to  the  cable  system and the physical integrity of the cable
   operator's wiring remains intact.

   (b)  Cable  operators  may require that home wiring (including passive
   splitters, connectors and other equipment used in the installation of home
   wiring)  meets  reasonable technical specifications, not to exceed the
   technical specifications of such equipment installed by the cable operator;
   provided however, that if electronic or physical harm is caused to the cable
   system, the cable operator may impose additional technical specifications to
   eliminate  such  harm.  To  the  extent  a customer's installations or
   rearrangements of wiring degrade the signal quality of or interfere with
   other customers' signals, or cause electronic or physical harm to the cable
   system, the cable operator may discontinue service to that subscriber until
   the degradation or interference is resolved.

   (c) Customers shall not physically cut, substantially alter, improperly
   terminate or otherwise destroy cable operator-owned home wiring.

   (d) Section 76.806 shall apply to all MVPDs.

   [ 62 FR 61034 , Nov. 14, 1997, as amended at  68 FR 13855 , Mar. 21, 2003]

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Subpart N—Cable Rate Regulation

   Source:  58 FR 29753 , May 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

   Effective  Date Note: The effective date of the amendments to part 76,
   published at  58 FR 29737  (May 21, 1993), extended to October 1, 1993, by an
   order published at  58 FR 33560  (June 18, 1993), and moved to September 1,
   1993, by an order published at  58 FR 41042  (August 2, 1993), is temporarily
   stayed for those cable systems that have 1,000 or fewer subscribers. This
   limited, temporary stay is effective September 1, 1993, and will remain in
   effect  until the Commission terminates the stay and establishes a new
   effective date in an order on reconsideration addressing the administrative
   burdens and costs of compliance for small cable systems. The Commission will
   publish in the Federal Register the new effective date of the rules with
   respect to small cable systems at that time.

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