(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, or to carry on the business of distributing to any persons in the incorporated areas of the city, any television, radio, or nonbroadcast signals by means of a cable communications system unless a franchise therefor has first been obtained from the City Commission, and unless such franchise is in full force and effect.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, install, or maintain within any public street in the incorporated areas of the city, equipment or facilities for distributing any television, radio or nonbroadcast signals through a cable communications system, unless a franchise authorizing such use of such street or property or area has first been obtained from the City Commission, and unless such franchise is in full force and effect.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively, or otherwise, with any part of a franchised cable communications system within the incorporated areas of the city, for the purpose of taking or receiving television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs, sound, or other non-broadcast signals.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively, or otherwise, with any part of a franchised cable communications system within the incorporated areas of the city, for the purpose of enabling himself or others to receive any television signal, radio signal, picture, programs, sound, or other signals without payment to the owner of this system.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person, without the consent of the owner, to willfully tamper with, remove, or injure any cables, wire, or equipment used in any cable communications system.
('81 Code, § 450.1, § 31)