Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 410-H.F.No. 1886 
           An act relating to crime; increasing penalties for 
          advertising, selling, and renting devices designed to 
          make an unauthorized connection to a cable 
          communications system; amending Minnesota Statutes 
          1986, section 609.80. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 609.80, is 
amended to read:  
    609.80 [INTERFERING WITH CABLE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [MISDEMEANOR.] Whoever does any of the 
following is guilty of a misdemeanor: 
    (1) intentionally and with the purpose of making or aiding 
in an unauthorized connection as defined in prohibited by 
section 609.52, subdivision 2, clause (12) to a licensed cable 
communications system as defined in chapter 238 sells, rents, 
lends, offers, or advertises for sale, rental or use, gives to 
another any instrument, apparatus, equipment, or device designed 
to make an unauthorized connection, or plan, specification or 
instruction for making an unauthorized connection, without 
receiving or seeking to receive money or any other thing of 
value in exchange; or 
    (2) intentionally tampers with, removes or injures any 
cable, wire, or other component of a licensed cable 
communications system as defined in chapter 238; or 
    (3) intentionally and without claim of right interrupts a 
service of a licensed cable communications system as defined in 
chapter 238. 
    Subd. 2.  [COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; FELONY.] Whoever sells or 
rents, or offers or advertises for sale or rental, any 
instrument, apparatus, equipment, or device designed to make an 
unauthorized connection as prohibited by section 609.52, 
subdivision 2, clause (12), to a licensed cable communications 
system as defined in chapter 238, or a plan, specification, or 
instructions for making an unauthorized connection, is guilty of 
a felony and may be sentenced to not more than three years of 
imprisonment or a fine of not more than $5,000, or both. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective August 1, 1988, and applies to 
crimes committed on or after that date. 
    Approved March 16, 1988