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§8304.__Petition; regulation

 
1.__Petition and review.__Within 60 days of receiving notice
of a final proposed increase in a rate or change in a product or
service pursuant to section 8303, subsection 1, paragraph D, 10
or more customers affected by the increase or change may file a
petition with the commission to review the increase or change.__
In response to the petition, the commission may review the
increase or change to assess its reasonableness.__If the petition
is signed by 25 or more customers, the commission shall review
the increase or change.

 
2.__Commission review.__If the commission, in its review under
subsection 1 of a final proposed increase in a rate or change in
a product or service finds that the increase or change is
unreasonable or poses an unreasonable hardship on customers, the
commission shall petition the Federal Communications Commission:

 
A. To stay the unreasonable increase or change pending
review by the Federal Communications Commission; and

 
B. To evaluate the commission's findings and recommendations
on the matter and to direct the cable system operator and,
as applicable, the franchising authority to revise the
increase or change in accordance with the commission's
recommendations.

 
§8305.__Commission rules

 
The commission may adopt rules necessary to implement this
chapter.__Rules adopted pursuant to this chapter are routine
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-
A.

 
§8306.__Cable system assessment; fund; distribution

 
The Cable Regulation Reimbursement Fund is established as a
nonlapsing fund to provide funds to pay the costs incurred by the
commission and municipalities in regulating the rates, products
and services of cable systems.__The commission shall assess cable
system operators in an equitable manner to provide necessary
funds for the Cable Regulation Reimbursement Fund.__The
commission shall by January 1st of each year provide an
accounting of its assessments under this section and the amounts
spent by the commission and distributed to municipalities.__The
commission by rule shall establish the standards and procedures
for the disbursement of funds to municipalities under this
section.


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