Cable television services, appropriation of
If a cable TV company sends someone cable service they never asked for, or keeps the service running more than 10 days after a customer sends written notice asking it to stop, the person getting that service has not stolen it. After those 10 days pass, the customer can treat the service as a free gift and owes the cable company nothing until the service is finally shut off or changed.
570.039. Cable television s, of — not , when. — A person who cable television service shall not be to have stolen that service within the meaning of section 570.030, if a cable television company either:
(1) Provides cable television service; or
(2) Fails to change or disconnect cable television service within ten days after receiving written notice to do so by the customer. The customer may deem such service to be a gift without any obligation to the cable television company from ten days after such written notice is received until the service is changed or disconnected.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
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