Sec. 76.806  Pre-termination access to cable home wiring.

    (a) Prior to termination of service, a customer may: install or 
provide for the installation of their own cable home wiring; or connect 
additional home wiring, splitters or other equipment within their 
premises to the wiring owned by the cable operator, so long as no 
electronic or physical harm is caused to the cable system and the 
physical integrity of the cable operator's wiring remains intact.
    (b) Cable operators may require that home wiring (including passive 
splitters, connectors and other equipment used in the installation of 
home wiring) meets reasonable technical specifications, not to exceed 
the technical specifications of such equipment installed by the cable 
operator; provided however, that if electronic or physical harm is 
caused to the cable system, the cable operator may impose additional 
technical specifications to eliminate such harm. To the extent a 
customer's installations or rearrangements of wiring degrade the signal 
quality of or interfere with other customers' signals, or cause 
electronic or physical harm to the cable system, the cable operator may 
discontinue service to that subscriber until the degradation or 
interference is resolved.
    (c) Customers shall not physically cut, substantially alter, 
improperly terminate or otherwise destroy cable operator-owned home 
wiring.

[ 62 FR 61034 , Nov. 14, 1997]

                    Subpart N--Cable Rate Regulation

    Source:  58 FR 29753 , May 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

    Effective Date Note: The effective date of the amendments to part 
76, published at  58 FR 29737  (May 21, 1993), extended to October 1, 
1993, by an order published at  58 FR 33560  (June 18, 1993), and moved to 
September 1, 1993, by an order published at  58 FR 41042  (August 2, 
1993), is temporarily stayed for those cable systems that have 1,000 or 
fewer subscribers. This limited, temporary stay is

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effective September 1, 1993, and will remain in effect until the 
Commission terminates the stay and establishes a new effective date in 
an order on reconsideration addressing the administrative burdens and 
costs of compliance for small cable systems. The Commission will publish 
in the Federal Register the new effective date of the rules with respect 
to small cable systems at that time.