New_jersey Statute | Act | Code |Title 48 Public Utilities| US Code - US Statute

48:5A-3. Definitions. 3. As used in this act, except as the context may otherwise clearly require or indicate: a. ~Board~ means the Board of Public Utilities of this State. b. ~Office~ means the Office of Cable Television established by this act. c. ~Director~ means the Director of the Office of Cable Television. d. ~Cable television system~ or ~CATV system~ means any facility within this State which is operated or intended to be operated to perform the service of receiving and amplifying the signals broadcast by one or more television stations and redistributing such signals by wire, cable or other device or means for accomplishing such redistribution, to members of the public who subscribe to such service, or distributing through its facility any television signals, whether broadcast or not; or any part of such facility. The term ~facility~ as used in this subsection includes all real property, antennae, poles, wires, cables, conduits, amplifiers, instruments, appliances, fixtures and other personal property used by a CATV company in providing service to its subscribers and customers. e. ~Cable television reception service~ means the simultaneous delivery through a CATV system of the signals of television broadcast stations to members of the public subscribing to such service, which service may include additional nonbroadcast signals delivered as a part of the service with no additional charge. f. ~Cable communications system~ or ~cable communications service~ means any communications service other than cable television reception service delivered through the facilities of a CATV system and for which charges in addition to or other than those made for cable television reception service are made or proposed to be made. g. ~Cable television company~ or ~CATV company~ means any person owning, controlling, operating or managing a cable television system, and the term ~person~ as used herein shall be construed, without limiting the generality thereof, to include specifically any agency or instrumentality of this State or of any of its political subdivisions; but this definition shall not include a telephone, telegraph or electric utility company regulated by the Board of Public Utilities in a case where it merely leases or rents or otherwise provides to a CATV company wires, conduits, cables or pole space used in the redistribution of television signals to or toward subscribers or customers of such CATV company. h. ~Highway~ includes every street, road, alley, thoroughfare, way or place of any kind used by the public or open to the use of the public. i. ~Certificate~ means a certificate of approval issued, or which may be issued, by the board pursuant to this act. j. ~Cable television service~ includes the definitions of cable television reception service and cable communications service herein, as well as the provision of any other impulse or signal by a cable television company or other service lawfully provided, utilizing the facilities of the system. k. ~Basic cable service~ means any service tier which includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals. l. ~Hearing impaired individual~ means an individual who, because of injury to, disease of, or defect in the inner, middle or outer ear, or any combination thereof, has suffered a loss of hearing acuity such that the individual cannot receive linguistic information without amplification, dubbing or captions. m. ~In series connection~ means a connection where the coaxial service wire entering the residence of a subscriber connects first to a television receiver or monitor, with the television receiver or monitor being connected by coaxial wire to a video cassette recorder or other auxiliary equipment or where the coaxial service wire connects first to a video cassette recorder or auxiliary equipment, with the equipment being connected to a television receiver or monitor and where no external splitting device is used. n. ~Municipality~ means one municipality acting singularly or two or more municipalities acting jointly in the granting of municipal consent for the provision of cable television service in accordance with the provisions of the ~Cable Television Act,~ P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) as amended and supplemented. o. ~Open video system~ means a facility consisting of a set of transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception, and control equipment that is designed to provide cable television service to multiple subscribers within a municipality and which has been certified by the Federal Communications Commission as being in compliance with Part 76 ~Multichannel Video and Cable Television Service~ of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. p. ~Private aggregator~ means a duly-organized business or non-profit organization authorized to do business in this State that enters into a contract with two or more municipalities for the purpose of facilitating the joint action of those municipalities in granting municipal consent for the provision of cable television service to those municipalities. L.1972,c.186,s.3; amended 1983, c.15, s.2; 1987, c.395, s.1; 2003, c.38, s.3.

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