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(c) No franchise granted under this Ordinance shall be effective unless and unt..1 eat5 of the foregoing policies of insurance as required in this section have been delive£ed to the City. SECTIOM 16. IHSPECTION OF PROPERTY AND Pd~COr~BS: At ali reasonable times, the grantee shall permit any duly authorized representative of the City to examine all property of the grantee, together with any appurtenant property of the grantee situated within or ~thout the City, and to examine and transcribe any and all maps and other records kept or maintainea by the grantee or under its control which deal with the opera,ions, affairs, transactions or property of the grantee with respect thereto. The grantee shall, at all times, make and keep in the City full and complete plans and records showing the exact location of all CATV system equipment installed or in use in streets, alleys and public places in the City. The grantee shall file with the Director of ~ublic Works,.on ok before, the last day in l~rch of each year, a current map or set of maps drawn to scale to be designated by the Director of Public Works, showing all CATV system equipment installed in streets, alleys and public places of the City during the previous year. SECTION 17. OPERATIONAL STANDARDS: The CATV system shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the highest and best accepted standards of the industry to the effect that subscribers shall receive the highest possible service. In determining the satisfactory extent of such standards the followingwill apply: (a) The system shall be installed using all-band equipment capable of passing the entire Vlfl~ and FM spectrum, and it shall have the further capability of converting UHF for distribution to subscrLbers on the VHF band. (b) The system, as installed, shall be capable of passing standard color TV signals without the introduction of noticeable effects on color fidelity and intelligence. (c) The system and all equipment shall be desigued and raced for 24-hour-per-day continuous operation. (d) The system signal-to-noise ratio shall be not less than 46 decibels. (e) Hum modulation of picture signal shall be less than 5%. (f) The system shall use components having VSWR of 1.4 or less. (g) The master antenna to be installed for the CATV system shall be located at a point where the signal strength of the TV stations to be received shall be not less than five hundred (500) microvolts per meter for low-band channels (2 through 6) and not less than eight hundred (800) mtcrovolts per mater for high-band channels (7 through 13) for at least fifty percent (50%) of the time at a receiving antenna height of thirty (30) feet aboveground. Each CATV subscribe~ shall receive a minimum signal strength of two thousand (2000) mocrovolts as raeasured at the antenna re,hals of the television set. Methods of measuring above standards, where necessary, will be established by the City. SECTION 18. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS: (a) All matters herein provided to be filed with the City shall be fzled with the City Clerk. (b) if grantee should fail to operate its system for a period of two yea~a from aha date ~uch service begins, the subscribers who have paid instal- lation charges shall be entitled to a refund of the installation charges less 1/2~.th 9f each charge fnr each month elapsing from the time service was first started co that ~ubscriber and during which time service was available to him. (~) The rate schedule for any service agreement or increase thereto ~o subscribm~cs ~v. ust have written approval of the City. (d) in the event the Public Utilities Comnisaion of the State of California or the Federal Con~unications Co_.~_tssion takes Jurisdiction over the operations and rates of the grantee, then the authority of the City to approve rates and charges shall cease.