Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 16 - Public Service Companies
333f - Planned Programming Change and Rate Change Notification
Section 16-333f-3 - Exceptions to the thirty day notice

(a) The notification requirement contained in section 16-333f-2 shall be in effect unless (1) otherwise required by federal law, (2) such planned programming or rate change is required by law to be made in fewer than thirty days, or (3) the department prescribes a longer or shorter period.

(b) When a franchise holder has actual or constructive knowledge that a planned programming rate change must, by law, be implemented in less than thirty days, such franchise holder shall notify the department, the chairperson of the advisory council and the chairpersons of the Joint Standing Committee on Energy and Technology, in writing, no later than two days of the franchise holder's knowledge, and notify each subscriber in the next bill or by separate notice no later than the next billing period, of such planned programming or rate change. Such notices shall include an explanation as to why the planned programming or rate change must be implemented with less than thirty days notice.

(c) Upon application of the franchise holder showing good cause as to why a planned programming or rate change should be implemented in less than thirty days, the department may prescribe, on a case by case basis, longer or shorter notice periods as the department deems to be in the best interest of subscribers.