(a) From and after the effective date of this chapter, no person shall establish, operate or carry on the business of distributing to any persons in this City any television signals or radio signals by means of a CATV system unless a franchise therefor has first been obtained pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and unless such franchise is in full force and effect.
(b) From and after the effective date of this chapter, no person shall construct, install or maintain within any public street in the City, or within any other public property of the City, or within any privately-owned area within the City which has not yet become a public street but is designated or delineated as a proposed public street on any tentative subdivision map approved by the City, any equipment or facilities for distributing any television signals or radio signals through a CATV system, unless a franchise authorizing such use of such street or property or area has first been obtained pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and unless such franchise is in full force and effect.
(c) No person, firm or corporation shall make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of a franchised CATV system within this City for the purpose of taking or receiving television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs or sound.
(d) No person, firm or corporation shall make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of a franchised CATV system within this City for the purpose of enabling himself or others to receive any television signal, radio signal, picture, program or sound, without payment to the owner of such system.
(e) No person, without the consent of the owner, shall willfully tamper with, remove or injure any cables, wires or equipment used for the distribution of television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs or sound.
(Ord. 19-77. Passed 7-18-77.)