A. A person is guilty of unlawful sale of cable television services if, with intent to avoid payment of the lawful charge for any communications services of a cable system, he or she offers for sale or otherwise makes available any telecommunications decoder or descrambler that defeats a mechanism of electronic signal encryption, or that restricts delivery of individually addressed switching imposed by the cable system.

B. Unlawful sale of cable television services is a gross misdemeanor. (Ord. 1631-89 §§ 2, 5, 1989.)