(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 non-broadcast signals by means of a cable communications system unless a franchise therefore has first been obtained from the City Council 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, any television, radio or non-broadcast 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 Council 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 said 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.
(Ord. 92-06, passed 12-17-92; Am. Ord. 93-01, passed 5-20-93) Penalty, see § 115.99