Title 47 — Telecommunications
Part IV · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 560. Scrambling of cable channels for nonsubscribers
Statutory text
Subscriber request
Upon request by a cable service subscriber, a cable operator shall, without charge, fully scramble or otherwise fully block the audio and video programming of each channel carrying such programming so that one not a subscriber does not receive it.
“Scramble” defined
As used in this section, the term “scramble” means to rearrange the content of the signal of the programming so that the programming cannot be viewed or heard in an understandable manner.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 104–104 title V § 504 · 110 Stat. 136
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 560
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 640, as added Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 504, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 136.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 640, as added Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 504, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 136.)
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Credits
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 640, as added Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 504, , 110 Stat. 136.)