(A) No person except an employee of the city in the normal course of his or her duties shall alter, remove or make any connections to city meter or service equipment. No meter seal may be broken by anyone other than a city employee; provided, however, that the city may give its prior consent to seal breaking by a customer when deemed necessary to the city.
(B) In case of tampering with meter installation or interfering with the proper working thereof, or any other theft of service by any person, or evidence of any such tampering, interfering, theft or service diversion, by whomsoever done, including the falsification of meter readings, the customer shall be liable to immediate discontinuance of service as provided herein. The city shall be entitled to bill and collect from the customer the appropriate rate for all power and energy not recorded on the meter by such tampering, interfering or other theft of service diversion (the amount of which may be estimated by the city from the best available data) and also for all expenses incurred by the city on account of such unauthorized act or acts. The bill will be paid at such reasonable time as established by the City Administrator.
(Prior Code, § 51.16) (Ord. 261, passed 5-8-1979) Penalty, see § 50.99