Tex. Penal Code § 31.14 · Chapter 31. THEFT
SALE OR LEASE OF MULTICHANNEL VIDEO OR INFORMATION SERVICES DEVICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 Section 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 Section 31.12.
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 858, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.31.htm
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