Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 61 > Article 3D - Theft of Cable Television Services

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Cable service: means : (A) The one-way transmission to subscribers of video programming or other programming service. See West Virginia Code 61-3D-1
• Cable system: means any facility within this state consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception and control equipment that is designed to provide cable television service which includes video programming and which is provided to multiple subscribers within a community, and does not include: (A) A facility that serves only to retransmit the television signals of one or more television broadcast stations. See West Virginia Code 61-3D-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Subscriber: means any person who receives cable television services. See West Virginia Code 61-3D-1
• Unauthorized: means that payment of full compensation for cable television services has been avoided, or has been sought to be avoided, without the consent of the supplier of the service. See West Virginia Code 61-3D-1