(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FACILITIES. Any apparatus used by a person in furnishing services to the public, including, but not limited to, electric power lines and poles, wires, cables, pipes, mains or other conductors or conduits used for the supplying and/or transmission of services to the public.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity.
SERVICES. The furnishing to the public, by either a private or public person, any of the following: water, sanitary sewer, steam, electricity, gas, cable antenna radio or television communication and/or transmissions or telephone or telegraph communications and/or transmissions.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to appropriate for its own use any service, without paying for the service, the applicable fees, costs, rates or charges to the person furnishing such services.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize the facilities of a person furnishing services to the public, unless prior consent from the owner of such facilities, or its authorized agent, has been obtained.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to damage, connect to or otherwise alter any facilities owned by a person furnishing services to the public unless prior consent from the owner of such facilities, or its authorized agent, has been obtained.
(1991 Code, § 9.21) Penalty, see § 10.99