Senate Amendment to Senate Bill No. 27 (BDR 58-27)
Proposed by: Committee on Commerce and Labor
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Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 4 as sec. 6 and adding new sections designated sections 4 and 5, following sec. 3, to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. Chapter 711 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. Any person who:
(a) By the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully destroys the insulation of a telecommunications line of a community antenna television company, or interrupts the transmission of the electric current through the line;
(b) Willfully interferes with the use of any such line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of any message over the line; or
(c) Procures or advises any such injury, interference or obstruction,
is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of any property damaged, altered, removed or destroyed and in no event less than a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is, in addition to the penalty set forth in that subsection, liable to the community antenna television company injured by such conduct in a civil action for all damages occasioned thereby.
Sec. 5.
NRS 711.270 is hereby amended to read as follows:(a) Makes or maintains a connection or attaches any device to any line or other component of a community antenna television company;
(b) Purchases or possesses any device; or
(c) Makes or maintains any modification to any device installed for a community antenna television company,
to intercept or receive any program or other service provided by a community antenna television company without the authorization of the company is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who knowingly and without the authorization of a community antenna television company:
(a) Imports into this state;
(b) Distributes; or
(c) Sells, offers or advertises to sell, or possesses with the intent to sell,
any device designed to decode a signal encoded by the community antenna television company is guilty of a misdemeanor.
3. [Any] Unless a greater penalty is provided in section 4 of this act, any person who willfully violates subsection 1 or 2 for commercial advantage, whether direct or indirect, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.".
Amend the bill as a whole by adding a new section designated sec. 7, following sec. 4, to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses that were committed before October 1, 1999.".
Amend the title of the bill, second line, after "telegraphs;" by inserting:
"prohibiting injury or obstruction to a telecommunications line of a community antenna television system; providing a penalty;".
Amend the summary of the bill, first line, by deleting "and telephones." and inserting:
", telephones and community antenna television systems.".