No person shall willfully or maliciously damage, or cause to be damaged, any wire, cable, conduit, apparatus or equipment of the grantee, or commit any act with intent to cause damage to any wire, cable, conduit, apparatus or equipment of the grantee, or tap, tamper with, or connect or assist in connecting, any wire or device to a wire, cable, conduit or equipment of the grantee in order to either attempt to or actually obtain a signal or impulse therefrom without authorization of the grantee. The existence of any unauthorized connection to the grantee's cable system shall raise a rebuttable presumption that the occupant of the dwelling unit connected by such unauthorized connection actually intended to receive signals or impulses from the grantee's cable television system. This section shall not prevent the grantee from removing, disconnecting or otherwise rendering inoperable any of the grantee's apparatus or equipment attached or in any way connected to such grantee's facilities, if done for reasonable cause.
The prohibitions, penalties and remedies set forth in this section and in Section 818.99 are in addition to the penalties and remedies for theft of cable service provided by Federal and State law.
(Ord. 581. Passed 12-13-95.)