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ORDINANCE NO. 2000 -- PAGE 24 §945.26 PUBLIC, EDUCATIONAL, OR GOVERNMENT (PEG) ACCESS CHANNELS AND FACILITIES; FEE IN LIEU. (a) Following completion of the system or system upgrade/rebuild, Grantee shall make available to each of its subscribers who receive some or all of the services offered on the system, reception of at least three Public, Educational, and Government (PEG) Access Channels to be allocated among noncommercial public, educational, and government usage as determined by Grantor. The channels designated for access shall be provided by Grantee as a part of the basic cable service. The access channels shall be made available by Grantee for use by the Village and its citizens in accordance with the rules and procedures established by the Village or any lawfully designated person, group, organization or agency authorized by the Village for that purpose. (b) To the extent that any access channel is not being used for the provision of noncommercial, public, educational or governmental access purposes, Grantee shall be permitted to use such channel(s) for the provision of other services subject to any reasonable rules established by the Village regarding such use. Grantee's permitted use of any access channel made pursuant to this section shall cease within 90 days of Grantee's receipt of notice from the Village that such channel will again be used for public, educational or governmental access. (c) Notwithstanding the above, Grantee may accommodate a request from the Village for additional access made pursuant to this chapter by combining more than one access use on a channel provided that: (1) It is technically and economically feasible for Grantee to do so; (2) The scheduling needs of all users of the channel can be reasonably accommodated; and (3) The access entity which requires use of the alternate channel must be able to access the alternate channel from the site where it normally originates playback of its programs and may not be required to transport tapes to a remote site for playback. (d) However, Grantee shall provide an additional PEG Channel for noncommercial public, educational, or government broadcasts in the event that the three PEG Channel provided under this Section are then fully utilized. In no event shall Grantee be required to provide in excess of one additional access channel and only after the cable system offers at least 150 channels. As used in this section FULLY UTILIZED mean utilized for original, non-duplicative programming, locally produced, not less than eight hours per day, five days per week, for a period of ten consecutive weeks. The additional PEG channel provided under this section shall be reviewed annually by Grantee. Upon such annual review, the additional PEG Channel will continue to be made available to Grantor to the extent that the PEG Channels provided under this chapter and any franchise agreement (including the