Notes on 47 U.S.C. § 532 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 47 U.S.C. § 532 : US Code - Notes

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, Sec. 612, as added Pub. L. 98-
549, Sec. 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2782; amended Pub. L. 102-
385, Secs. 9, 10(a), (b), Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1484, 1486; Pub.
L. 104-104, title V, Sec. 506(b), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 137.)
AMENDMENTS
1996 - Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 104-104 substituted "a cable
operator may refuse to transmit any leased access program or
portion of a leased access program which contains obscenity,
indecency, or nudity and" for "an operator".
1992 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 9(a), inserted "to
promote competition in the delivery of diverse sources of video
programming and" after "purpose of this section is".
Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 9(d), amended par. (5)
generally. Prior to amendment, par. (5) read as follows: "For the
purposes of this section -
"(A) the term 'activated channels' means those channels
engineered at the headend of the cable system for the provision
of services generally available to residential subscribers of the
cable system, regardless of whether such services actually are
provided, including any channel designated for public,
educational, or governmental use; and
"(B) the term 'commercial use' means the provision of video
programming, whether or not for profit."
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 9(b)(1), inserted "and with
rules prescribed by the Commission under paragraph (4)" after
"purpose of this section".
Subsec. (c)(4). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 9(b)(2), added par. (4).
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 10(a), inserted "or the cable
operator" after "franchising authority" and inserted at end "This
subsection shall permit a cable operator to enforce prospectively a
written and published policy of prohibiting programming that the
cable operator reasonably believes describes or depicts sexual or
excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as
measured by contemporary community standards."
Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 9(c), added subsec. (i).
Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 102-385, Sec. 10(b), added subsec. (j).
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1992 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 102-385 effective 60 days after Oct. 5,
1992, see section 28 of Pub. L. 102-385, set out as a note under
section 325 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective 60 days after Oct. 30, 1984, except where
otherwise expressly provided, see section 9(a) of Pub. L. 98-549,
set out as a note under section 521 of this title.