Torrance Municipal Code Art. 12 Cable Television Services

No person shall construct, install or maintain within any public street, alley or way in the City, or within any property owned by the City or within any privately owned area in the City which has not yet become a public street but which is designated or delineated as a proposed public street on any tentative subdivision map approved by the Council, any equipment, properties or facilities to be employed or used as part of a cable television system unless a franchise first has been obtained from the City Council and is in full force and effect.

No person shall make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of a franchised cable television system in the City for the purpose of (1) taking or receiving television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs, or sound; (2) enabling himself or others to receive any television signal, radio signal, picture, program or sound, without payment to the Grantee pursuant to the provisions of a franchise; (3) or for any other purpose.

No person shall resell, without the express written consent of both the Grantee and the City, any cable service, program or signal transmitted by a cable television company operating under a franchise issued by the City.

No person shall, without the consent of the owner of a franchised cable television system, willfully tamper with, remove or injure any equipment used for distribution or origination of television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs or sound.

Neither the owner of any multiple unit residential dwelling nor his agent or representative shall interfere with the right of any tenant or lawful resident thereof to receive cable television or other cable communication service, cable installation or maintenance from a cable communication company regulated by and lawfully operating under a valid and existing cable television franchise issued by the City.

Neither the owner of any multiple unit residential dwelling nor his agent or representative shall ask, demand or receive any payment, service or gratuity in any form as a condition for permitting or cooperating with the installation of a cable communications service to the dwelling unit occupied by a tenant or resident requesting service.

Neither the owner of any multiple unit residential dwelling nor his agent or representative shall penalize, charge or surcharge a tenant or resident or forfeit or threaten to forfeit any right of such tenant or resident who requests or receives cable communication service from a company operating under a valid and existing cable television franchise issued by the City.

Nothing in this Article shall prohibit a person from requiring that cable communications system facilities conform to laws and regulations and reasonable conditions necessary to protect safety, functioning, appearance and value of his premises or the convenience and safety of persons or property thereon.

Nothing in this Article shall prohibit a person from requiring a cable communication company from agreeing to indemnify the owner, or his agents or representatives for damages caused by the installation, operation, maintenance or removal of cable communications facilities.