(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to attach or maintain an electronic, mechanical or other connection to any cable, wire, decoder, converter, descrambler, device or equipment of a cable telecommunications system or to remove, tamper with, modify or alter any cable, wire, decoder, converter, descrambler, device or equipment of a cable telecommunications system for the purpose of intercepting or receiving any programming or service transmitted by the cable telecommunications system for which the person, firm or corporation has not been authorized by the cable telecommunications system to receive.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation without the authorization of a cable telecommunications system, to distribute, sell, attempt to sell or possess for sale any converter, decoder, descrambler, device or kit or other equipment that is designated to decode or descramble any encoded or scrambled signal transmitted by the cable telecommunication system.
(Ord. passed 3-25-1996) Penalty, see § 10.99