Any person who violates or permits the violation of any provision of
this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement
proceeding commenced by the Township before a District Justice, pay a fine
for each such violation in an amount not less than $100 and not more than
$600, plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred
by the Township. No judgment shall be imposed until the date of the determination
of a violation by the District Justice. If the defendant neither pays nor
timely appeals the judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant
to the applicable rules of civil procedure. In addition to other remedies,
the Township may institute and maintain appropriate actions at law or in equity
to restrain, correct or abate violations of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to commence or engage in the business
of constructing or operating cable television systems in the Township of East
Whiteland without being awarded, or having duly executed an agreement awarding
a franchise under this chapter. Township reserves the right to build its own
cable television communications system without granting itself a franchise.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to make any
unauthorized connection, whether physically, electronically, acoustically,
inductively, or otherwise, with any part of the franchisee's cable television
or telecommunication system within the Township for the purposes of enabling
himself or others to receive any television or radio signals, picture, program,
or sound, without payment to the operator of said system in accordance with
the then current rate schedule.
The Township will cooperate with the franchise to prevent theft of service
wherever possible.
It shall be unlawful for any persons, without the consent of the subscriber
(residential/commercial), to unlawfully tamper, remove, or injure any cable,
wires or equipment used for distribution of television signals, radio signals,
pictures, programs, sound, or data connection.
