[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of East Norriton 12-19-1983 by Ord. No. 195. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
As used in this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein:
CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEM
A system of coaxial cables, microwave links, television origination facilities, a control terminal, remote transmitter-receivers that connect to ancillary devices and other electrical conductors and equipment used or to be used primarily to receive television, digital or radio signals directly or indirectly by cable, microwave or air and to transmit the signals to subscribers or from subscribers to the control terminal with relay capabilities to remote receiving points.
FRANCHISE
Includes any authorization granted by the Township of East Norriton in terms of a franchise privilege, permit, license or otherwise to construct or have constructed, operate, maintain and provide a cable television service to the citizens of the Township of East Norriton.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind.
B. 
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future; words in the plural number include the singular; and words in the singular number include the plural number.
C. 
The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to receive or to make or allow to be made to that person's property any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of the cable television system of any provider of cable television services franchised by the Township of East Norriton for the purpose of that person enabling himself or others to receive and/or relay television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs, sounds or any other information or intelligence transmitted over the cable television system of the authorized franchise without payment to the franchisee of the scheduled rate of charges established from time to time for the various services being supplied through the cable television system to the citizens of East Norriton Township.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any persons, without the consent of the owner or authorized franchisee, to willfully tamper with, remove or injure any cable wires or other equipment used for the distribution of television signals, radio signals, pictures, programs, sounds or any other information or intelligence transmitted and/or received over the cable television system of any duly authorized franchisee of the Township of East Norriton.
[Amended 12-19-1988 by Ord. No. 274]
Any person, corporation or other entity who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or who should fail to comply with any notice of violation herein, upon conviction before a District Justice within the magisterial district within which the Township of East Norriton is a part, shall be fined not more than $600 plus costs of prosecution after a summary proceeding brought in the name of the Township before said District Justice. A new and separate offense shall be deemed to be committed for each day that such violation exists. In default of the payment of any fine imposed and the costs, the person or persons that are charged may be sentenced to be committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.