(a) A person who willfully or maliciously damages or causes to be damaged any wire, cable, conduit, apparatus or equipment of a grantee, or who commits any act with intent to cause damage to any wire, cable, conduit, apparatus or equipment of a grantee, or who taps, tampers with or connects any wire or device to a wire, cable, conduit or equipment of a grantee with intent to obtain a signal or impulse therefrom without authorization of the grantee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) This section shall not prevent a grantee from removing, disconnecting or otherwise rendering inoperable any of the grantee's apparatus or equipment attached or in any way connected to such person's facilities, if done for reasonable cause.
(c) The prohibitions, penalties and remedies set forth in this section and in Section 803.99 are in addition to the penalties and remedies for theft of cable service provided by Federal and State law.
(Ord. 615. Passed 9-5-95.)