47 CFR 76.2000 : Telecommunication (§ 0.1 To Parts 401-499) — (Parts 70-72 To § 79.110) — Federal Communications Commission (Continued) (Parts 70-72 To § 79.110) — Broadcast Radio Services (Parts 70-72 To § 79.110) — Multichannel Video And Cable Television Service (§ 76.1 To § 76.2000) — Access To Mdus (§ 76.2000) — Exclusive access to multiple dwelling units generally.

(a) Prohibition. No cable operator or other provider of MVPD service subject to 47 U.S.C. 548 shall enforce or execute any provision in a contract that grants to it the exclusive right to provide any video programming service (alone or in combination with other services) to a MDU. All such exclusivity clauses are null and void.

(b) Definition. For purposes of this rule, MDU shall include a multiple dwelling unit building (such as an apartment building, condominium building or cooperative) and any other centrally managed residential real estate development (such as a gated community, mobile home park, or garden apartment); provided however, that MDU shall not include time share units, academic campuses and dormitories, military bases, hotels, rooming houses, prisons, jails, halfway houses, hospitals, nursing homes or other assisted living facilities.