Point Arena Municipal Code Art. VII Criminal Violations and Penalty

(1) From and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to 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 cable television 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.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to make or use any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively, or otherwise, with any part of a franchised cable television system within this city for the purpose of enabling himself or others to receive or use any television signals, radio signal, picture, program, or sound without payment to the owner of said system. This section is not intended to affect any direct interception of satellite programming that is governed by the provisions of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person, without the consent of the owner, to willfully tamper with, remove, or injure any cables, wires, or equipment used for distribution of television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs, or sound.

(Ord. 127 § 4.04.195, 1987.)

Any person convicted of violating PAMC 5.15.195 shall be punished, in addition to whatever monetary fines and penalties are otherwise authorized herein, by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by a fine of $1,000, or both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 127 § 4.04.200, 1987.)