It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, or interfere with, the operation of any electric meter through which electricity is supplied by the City of Cookeville, Tennessee, or to in any way tamper with or interfere with any of the electric facilities of the city or to make improper connections thereto so as to evade, or attempt to evade, the payment of lawful service and connection charges to the city.
Any person tampering with or interfering with the electric facilities of the city shall be presumed to have done so with the intent to evade or attempt to evade the payment of lawful service and connection charges to the city.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, individual, or group of individuals to tamper, bother, molest, or attack with malicious intent any pole, line, transformer, substation, switch, guy, or any other piece of apparatus or material owned and/or used by the electric department in its transmission and/or distribution of electric power to the city.
(1970 Code, § 13-322)