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3.22 LEASED ACCESS CHANNEL, or COMMERCIAL ACCESS CHANNEL means any channel designated or dedicated for use by persons unaffiliated with the Grantee, at rates which are in accordance with applicable law. __3.22a LOCAL PROGRAMMING CHANNEL means a channel designated for local programming programmed by the GRANTEE. 3.23 MONITORING means observing a communications signal, or the absence of a signal, where the observer is not a party to the communication, whether the signal is observed by visual or electronic means, for any purpose whatsoever. 3.24 NARROWCASTING shall mean the ability to distribute cable programming to a particular segment or segments of the cable subscribers. 3.25 NON-COMMERCIAL me,ins access channel use in a manner similar to Public Broadcasting Service station programming and underwriter acknowledgments and telecourses being offered for a fee by non-profit educational institutions or governments. 3.26 PERSON means an individual, partnership, association, organization, corporation or any lawful successor transferee of said individual, partnership, association, organization or corporation. 3.27 PLANT MILE' means a linear mile of cable as measured on the street or easement from pole to pole or pedestal to pedestal. In cases where cable is on both sides of the street, only the cable on one side of the street will be utilized in measuring a plant mile. 3.28 PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL means any channel designated or dedicated for use by the general public or non-commercial organizations which is made available for use without charge on a nondiscriminatory basis in accordance with the rules and regulations specified in the Franchise. 3.29 PUBLIC WAY or PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY means the surface, the air space above the surface, and the area below the surface of any public street, highway, lane, path, alley, sidewalk, boulevard, drive, bridge, tunnel, park, parkways, waterways, utility easements or other public right-of-way now or hereafter held by the County which shall entitle the County and the Company to the use thereof for the purpose of installing and maintaining the Company cable television system. No reference herein, or in any Franchise, to the "public way" shall be deemed to be a representation or guarantee by the County that its title to any property is sufficient to permit its use for such purpose, and the Grantee shall, by its use of such terms, be deemed to gain only such rights to use property in the County as the County may have the undisputed right and power to give.