1.__Petition and review.__Within 60 days of receiving notice of a final proposed increase in a rate or change in a product or service pursuant to section 8303, subsection 1, paragraph D, 10 or more customers affected by the increase or change may file a petition with the commission to review the change.__In response to the petition, the commission may examine the change or increase to assess its reasonableness.__If the petition is signed by 25 or more customers, the commission shall review the change.

2.__Commission review.__If the commission, in its review of a final proposed increase in a rate or change in a product or service finds that the increase or change is unreasonable or poses an unreasonable hardship on customers, the commission shall petition the Federal Communications Commission:

A. To stay the unreasonable increase or change pending review by the Federal Communications Commission; and

B. To evaluate the commission's findings and recommendations on the matter and to direct the cable system operator and, as applicable, the franchising authority to revise the rate or change in accordance with the commission's recommendations.

§8305. Commission rules

The commission may adopt rules necessary to implement this chapter.__Rules adopted pursuant to this chapter are routine technical rules as defined in the Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

§8306.__Cable system assessment; fund; distribution

The Cable Regulation Reimbursement Fund is established as a nonlapsing fund to provide funds to pay the costs of the commission and those of municipalities in regulating the rates, products and services of cable systems.__The commission shall assess cable system operators in an equitable manner to provide necessary funds for the Cable Regulation Reimbursement Fund.__The commission shall by January 1st of each year provide an accounting of its assessments under this section and the amounts spent by the commission and distributed to municipalities.__The commission by rule shall establish the standards and procedures for the disbursement of funds to municipalities under this section.