Sec. 76.305  Records to be maintained locally by cable system operators 
          for public inspection.

    (a) Records to be maintained. The operator of every cable television 
system having 1,000 or more subscribers shall maintain for public 
inspection a file containing a copy of all records which are required to 
be kept by Sec. 76.207 (political file); 76.221(f) (sponsorship 
identifications); 76.79 (EEO records available for public inspection); 
76.225(c) (commerical records for children's programming); 76.601(c) 
(proof-of-performance test data); 76.601(e) (signal leakage logs and 
repair records) and Sec. 76.701(h)(records for leased access).
    (1) A record shall be kept of each test and activation of the 
Emergency Alert System (EAS) procedures pursuant to the requirement of 
part 11 of this chapter and the EAS Operating Handbook. These records 
shall be kept for three years.
    (2) [Reserved]
    (b) Location of records. The public inspection file shall be 
maintained at the office which the system operator maintains for the 
ordinary collection of subscriber charges, resolution of subscriber 
complaints, and other business or at any accessible place in the 
community served by the system unit(s) (such as a public registry for 
documents or an attorney's office). The public inspection file shall be 
available for public inspection at any time during regular business 
hours.
    (c) The records specified in paragraph (a) of this section shall be 
retained for the period specified in Secs. 76.207, 76.221(f), 76.79, 
76.225(c), 76.601(c), and 76.601(e), respectively.
    (d) Reproduction of records. Copies of any material in the public 
inspection file shall be available for machine reproduction upon request 
made in person, provided the requesting party shall pay the reasonable 
cost of reproduction. Requests for machine copies shall be fulfilled at 
a location specified by the system operator, within a reasonable period 
of time, which in no event shall be longer than seven days. The system 
operator is not required to honor requests made by mail but may do so if 
it chooses.

(Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 301, 303, 307, 308, 309, 315, 317, 48 Stat., as 
amended, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1068,

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1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1088, 1089; (47 U.S.C. 152, 153, 154, 155, 
301, 303, 307, 308, 309, 315, ))

[39 317 FR 29186 , Aug. 14, 1974, as amended at  40 FR 25024 , June 12, 1975; 
 42 FR 19349 , Apr. 13, 1977;  51 FR 26251 , July 22, 1986;  56 FR 19617 , 
Apr. 29, 1991;  57 FR 11001 , Apr. 1, 1992;  58 FR 7993 , Feb. 11, 1993;  59 FR 67103 , Dec. 28, 1994]