Any person who violates or permits the violation
of any provision of this chapter, after written notice and a thirty-day
period to cure, 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 $1,000 plus all court costs, including
reasonable attorneys' 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 a cable system
in the Township without being awarded a cable franchise and executing
a franchise agreement with the Township. The 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 telecommunications 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 franchisee
to prevent theft of service wherever possible.
It shall be unlawful for any person, without
the consent of the subscriber (residential/commercial) or the franchisee,
as applicable, to unlawfully tamper, remove or injure any cable, wires
or equipment used for distribution of television signals, radio signals,
pictures, programs, sounds or data connection.