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.