Each community antenna television company shall make available at cost, by a rental, sales or installment sales agreement, to each subscriber who is deaf or hard of hearing, equipment which receives and decodes closed captions which are simultaneously broadcast with video signals carried by the company.
(P.A. 77-57; P.A. 80-121, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-168; P.A. 98-121, S. 6; P.A. 17-202, S. 52.)
History: P.A. 80-121 clarified provisions forbidding sale, lease or repair of receiving equipment by adding “as part of, or in connection with, its operation of such system”; P.A. 85-168 added Subsec. (b) re the availability of decoder equipment for deaf or hearing impaired subscribers; P.A. 98-121 deleted former Subsec. (a) concerning the sale, lease or repair of receiving equipment and removed Subsec. (b) designator; P.A. 17-202 replaced “hearing impaired” with “hard of hearing”.