47 C.F.R. § 76.701

Current through September 30, 2024
Section 76.701 - Leased access channels
(a) Notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 532(b)(2) (Communications Act of 1934, as amended, section 612), a cable operator, in accordance with 47 U.S.C. 532(h) (Cable Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, section 10(a)), may adopt and enforce prospectively a written and published policy of prohibiting programming which, it reasonably believes, describes or depicts sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards.
(b) A cable operator may refuse to transmit any leased access program or portion of a leased access program that the operator reasonably believes contains obscenity, indecency or nudity.

Note to paragraph (b): "Nudity" in paragraph (b) is interpreted to mean nudity that is obscene or indecent.

47 C.F.R. §76.701

62 FR 28373, May 23, 1997, as amended at 64 FR 35950, July 2, 1999

NOTE TO PARAGRAPH ( b ): "Nudity" in paragraph (b) is interpreted to mean nudity that is obscene or indecent.