South Carolina § 16-11-840 - Unauthorized device designed to decode or descramble cable television signal.
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§ 16-11-840. Unauthorized device designed to decode or descramble cable television signal.
It is unlawful for any person, without the express authorization of a franchised or other duly licensed cable television system, knowingly and wilfully to manufacture, import into this State, distribute, sell, offer to sell, possess for sale, advertise for sale, or install any device, or any plan or kit for a device or for a printed circuit, designed in whole or in part to decode, descramble, or otherwise make intelligible any encoded, scrambled, or other nonstandard signal carried by that cable television system. For the purposes of this section, "encoded, scrambled, or other nonstandard signal" includes, but is not limited to, any type of signal not intended to produce an intelligible program or service without the aid of a decoder, descrambler, filter, trap, or similar device.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 407.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 16-11-840 ("Unauthorized device designed to decode or descramble cable television signal.") is part of the South Carolina Code of Laws, the codified statutory law of South Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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