(A) It is an offense for any person:
(1) To connect any instrument, device, or contrivance with any wire supplying or intended to supply electricity or electric current or to connect any pipe or conduit supplying water, without the knowledge and consent of the municipality, in such manner that any portion thereof may be supplied to any instrument by or at which electricity, electric current, or water may be consumed without passing through the meter made or provided for measuring or registering the amount or quantity thereof passing through it;
(2) To knowingly use or knowingly permit the use of electricity, electric current, or water obtained unlawfully pursuant to this section;
(3) To reconnect electrical or water service without the knowledge and consent of the municipality if the service has been disconnected pursuant to Neb. RS 70-1601 through 70-1615; or
(4) To willfully injure, alter, or by any instrument, device, or contrivance in any manner interfere with or obstruct the action or operation of any meter made or provided for measuring or registering the amount or quantity of electricity, electric current, or water passing through it, without the knowledge and consent of the municipality.
(B) Proof of the existence of any wire, pipe, or conduit connection or reconnection or of any injury, alteration, interference, or obstruction of a meter is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person in possession of the premises where such connection, reconnection, injury, alteration, interference, or obstruction is proved to exist.
(Prior Code, § 3-1003) (Ord. 616, passed 2-19-1996; Ord. 724, passed 1-19-2004) Penalty, see § 54.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 28-515.02