CCR1984243RESOLUTION 11243-84
APPROVAL OF COMMUNITY ACCESS RULES
(CABLE TV)
WHEREAS, the Cable TV Citizens Committee has established the
attached Community Access Rules governing the availability and
use of the community channel and Community programming
equipment of Ingersoll Cable Corporation serving the City of
Muskego, and
WHEREAS, these Rules have been reviewed by the Public Welfare
Committee and they have recommended approval.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of
Muskego, upon the recommendation of the Public Welfare
Committee, does hereby approve the Community Access Rules
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
DATED THIS DAY OF , 1984.
PUBLIC WELFARE COMMITTEE
Ald. Daniel J. Hilt
ATTEST :
City Clerk
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COMMUNITY ACCESS
Community Access exists for the benefit of the Community. It is
Muskego an electronic medium of communications previously
Ingersoll Cable Corporation's wish to create for the residents of
unavailable to the citizens of the community.
Ingersoll Cable Corporation owns the equipment which will be for
procedures must be established in order to insure and protect the
the use of all members of the community. Certain rules and
Community's privileged use of the equipment while we protect the
rights of Ingersoll Cable Corporation and the equipment.
Without the rules and guidelines, neither the community nor
Ingersoll Cable Corporation could control misuse or abuse or
guarantee the use of our equipment on a non-discriminatory basis.
It is with this intent that the following rules have been
established.
November 13, 1984
INGERSOLL CABLE CORPOMTIOX
COMMUNITY ACCESS RULES
The rules established govern the availability and use of the
Community channel and Community programming equipment of
Ingersoll Cable Corporation, serving the City of Muskego.
1. Advertising material designed to 'promote the sale of e commercial products or services including advertising by or
on behalf of legally qualified candidates is prohibited.
2. No program, production or presentation shall be cablecast on
a community channel which involves directly or in-directly
any lottery.
3. No program or presentation shall be cablecast or permitted
to be cablecast on the community channel which contains any
obscene or indecent material. All cablecast mst be in
accordance with current FCC rules and regulation.
4. All disputes arising over the allocation of programming time
shall be resolved by the Ingersoll Cable Corporation within
the following guidelines:
b) A previous user who has not been scheduled Ln prime time
a) First time users have priority over regular users.
(6pm-l0pm) shall have priority for prime time.
5. The Community channel and Ingersoll Cable Corporation
broadcasting equipment shall be available for non-commercial
Video tapes can be purchased from Ingersoll Cable
use on a non-charge, non-discriminatory, first come basis.
Corporation at actual purchase price, if requested.
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6. Community access users shall successfully complete all video
and equipment training prior to using Ingersoll equipment.
Training rules for use of the equipment shall be established
by Ingersoll Cable Corporation in accordance with the general
practices of use of equipment of this type.
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Individual's under the age of 18 shall have a parent or
Corporation indicating the adult takes full responsibility
guardian's signature on file with Ingersoll Cable
for the program and actions of the minor, as well as for the
equipment used.
Equipment may be reserved no more than one month in advance
and no less than two business days in advance. Equipment
48 hours on weekends. If there have been no other requests
can be checked out for a maximun of 24 hours on weekdays and
these time periods can be extended at the discretion of
Ingersoll Cable Corporation. City of Muskego residents
would have first priority on one camera for 72 hours prior
to use of that equipment.
In order to assure equipment availability to as many users
as possible, and to protect the rights of all, violations of
the following may result in the violator's suspension of
community access privileges:
a) Leaving the facility without properly checking out the
b) Not returning equipment at the agreed upon time.
c) Returning the equipment in a condition that indicates
d) Allowing a non-certified individual to use the
equipment.
negligence, damage, or abuse.
equipment.
The individual signing out the equipment will be responsible
for the repair/and or replacement of any equipment damaged
through abuse or negligence.
At the option of the individual checking out the camera, for
a non-refundable fee of $5.00 per day, per camera, the
policy covering damage not attributed to normal wear and
individual may purchase a $100.00 deductible insurance
use. Said policy will be maintained in force by the
Ingersoll Cable Corporation.
All equipment shall be operated in accordance with the
procedures that will be detailed in Ingersoll Cable Cor-
Cable Corporation.
poration workshops and any other guidelines set by Ingersoll
The Community Access User shall bear sole responsibllity for
the content of all programs, live or taped.
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Any access program funded, sponsored or underwritten by any
support by acknowledging the following:
individual, business, or organization shall credit that
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"THIS PROGRAM WAS WE POSSIBLE THROUGH FUNDING PROVIDED
No addresses, slogans, phone numbers or other descriptive
phrases may be used.
All programs produced with Ingersoll Cable equipment must
credit Ingersoll Cable as follows:
"PRODUCED THROUGH THE COMMUNITY ACCESS ASSISTANCE OF
INGERSOLL CABLE CORPOFUTION OF MUSKEGO, WISCONSIN"
The "Consent Release Claim'' signed by the access user allows
Ingersoll Cable Corporation permission to use any program produced by the access user on the Ingersoll Cable system
xi11 not sell or commercially distribute a producer's work
without any further clearances. Ingersoll Cable Corporation
wLthout additional permission granted from the producer. At
the end of a 30 day period, the video tape will be returned
to the owner.
A11 tapes submitted by access users will be reviewed for
technical quality. Tapes played must be able to deliver a
clear, unbroken signal to subscribers.
Failure to comply with the rules set forth may subject the
access user to forfeiture of the right to use the CommunLty
Access channel and/or access equipment. Should an
individual feel their forfeiture was improper, they may
appeal said decision to the Public Welfare Committee.
Should the Public Welfare Committee feel that the suspension
of an Lndividual's rights were based upon properly
documented violation, the suspension will remain. If the
Public Welfare Committee feels the suspension of rights uere
by the Public Welfare Committee stands final. not properly documented, then any overturn of the suspension
The rules established are provided as an overview. Should
either the City of Muskego, or Ingersoll Cable Corporation
feel that these rules should be changed, Lt shall be the
responsibility of both the Public Welfare Committee and
Ingersoll Cable Corporation, to mutually agree upon any
changes to the Community Access Rules. If the Public
Welfare Committee and Ingersoll Corporation cannot mutually
agree, there would be no change in the rules.
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