<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 23-112. - Construction and technical standards.</div>
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               (a)
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               Compliance with construction and technical standards. Grantee shall construct, install,
               operate and maintain its system in a manner consistent with all laws, ordinances,
               construction standards, governmental requirements, FCC technical standards, and detailed
               technical standards submitted by grantee as part of its application, as may be incorporated
               by reference in the franchise. The grantee, through the system, shall provide uniform,
               strong signals which are free from any significant distortion and interference. The
               system shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintain for 24-hours-a-day continuous
               operation. The system shall produce, for reception on subscribers' receivers which
               are in good working order, either monochrome or color pictures (providing the receiver
               is color capable) which are free from any significant interference or distortion which
               would cause any material degradation of video or audio quality.
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               (b)
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               State of the art. The grantee shall construct, install, operate and maintain its system
               in accordance with the highest standards of the art of cable communications, as provided
               in the franchise agreement. In no event shall the system be of any lesser quality
               than that provided pursuant to the cable franchise of the City of Durham.
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               (c)
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               Contractor qualifications. Any contractor proposed for work of construction, installation,
               operation, maintenance, and repair of system equipment must be properly licensed under
               laws of the state, and all local ordinances.
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               (d)
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               The grantee's system and associated equipment erected by the grantee within the county
               shall be so located as to cause minimum interference with the proper use of streets,
               alleys, and other public ways and places, and to cause minimum interference with the
               rights and reasonable convenience of property owners who adjoin any of the said streets,
               alleys or other public ways and places. No pole or other fixtures placed in any public
               ways by the grantee shall be placed in such a manner as to interfere with normal travel
               on such public way.
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               (e)
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               The county does not guarantee the accuracy of any maps showing the horizontal or vertical
               location of existing substructures. In public rights-of-way, where necessary, the
               location shall be verified using industry-accepted location procedures.
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               (f)
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               Construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of the cable communications
               system shall be performed in an orderly and workmanlike manner, in accordance with
               then current technological standards. All cables and wires shall be installed, where
               possible, parallel with electric and telephone lines. Multiple cable configurations
               shall be arranged in parallel and bundled with due respect for engineering considerations.
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               (g)
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               Grantee shall at all times comply with:
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               (1)
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               National Electrical Safety Code (National Bureau of Standards);
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               (2)
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               National Electrical Code (National Bureau of Fire Underwriters); and
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               (3)
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               Applicable FCC or other federal, state and local regulations and standards as set
               forth in the franchise.
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               (h)
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               In any event, the system shall not endanger or interfere with the safety of persons
               or property in the franchise area or other areas where the grantee may have equipment
               located.
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               (i)
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               Any antenna structure used in the cable communications system shall comply with construction,
               marking, and lighting of antenna structure standards as required by federal and state
               law or regulation.
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               (j)
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               All worker facilities, conditions, and procedures that are used during construction,
               installation, operation, and maintenance of the cable system shall comply with the
               standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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               (k)
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               The grantee shall comply with all rules and regulations of the FCC relating to signal
               leakage.
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               (l)
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               The grantee shall maintain equipment capable of providing standby power for a minimum
               of four hours for the headend and two and one-half hours for transportation and trunk
               amplifiers, or as specified in the franchise agreement.
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               (Ord. of 10-10-05, Â§ 25-142)
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