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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-18-1. Cable television system defined.
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-18-1. Cable television system defined.

As used in this chapter, the term “cable television system” means a nonbroadcast facility consisting of a set of transmission paths and associated generation, reception, transmission, and control equipment, under common ownership and control, that distributes or is designed to distribute to subscribers the signals of one or more television broadcast stations and programs received via satellite, microwave, video tape, or video discs or produced by the franchised cable system.

## History

Ga. L. 1981, p. 865, § 1.