Subject to applicable law, it shall be unlawful for any person to make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of a franchisee's system within the municipality for the purpose of enabling anyone to receive any services of the system or gain profit thereby without authority of or payment to the franchisee. Any such unlawful and unauthorized connection shall be punishable as a misdemeanor of the first degree upon arrest by municipal law enforcement agencies and conviction in municipal court.