Texas Penal Code 31.14 – Sale or Lease of Multichannel Video or Information Services Device
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(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly sells or leases, with an intent to aid in the commission of an offense under § 31.12, a device, a kit or part for a device, or a plan for a system of components wholly or partly designed to make intelligible an encrypted, encoded, scrambled, or other nonstandard signal carried or caused by a multichannel video or information services provider.
(b) In this section, “device,” “encrypted, encoded, scrambled, or other nonstandard signal,” and “multichannel video or information services provider” have the meanings assigned by § 31.12.
Terms Used In Texas Penal Code 31.14
- Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Law: means the constitution or a statute of this state or of the United States, a written opinion of a court of record, a municipal ordinance, an order of a county commissioners court, or a rule authorized by and lawfully adopted under a statute. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Misdemeanor: means an offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, by confinement in jail, or by both fine and confinement in jail. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
- Person: means an individual or a corporation, association, limited liability company, or other entity or organization governed by the Business Organizations Code. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
(c) This section does not prohibit the sale or lease of satellite receiving antennas that are otherwise permitted by state or federal law without providing notice to the comptroller.
(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.