(a) No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust or interfere with a fire hydrant, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter or other regulator operating or measuring device, or appliance in or attached to the wells, tanks, reservoirs, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes, or other pipes or apparatus of any utility or facilities of the Water Division or that of a water works company or furnisher of water, with intent to cause the escape of water or to injure or destroy such property.
(b) No person shall tap, sever, open or make unauthorized connections with a main or pipe used or intended for the transmission of water. This section does not apply to the agent or employee for that purpose, of the owner or operator of the appliances referred to in this section, and does not apply to anything done by or under authority of any regularly constituted fire department.
(c) As used in this section,
UTILITY
means any water works company, the city’s Water Division and the water works company of any other political subdivision of the state supplying and furnishing water or water services to and for the benefit of the city, when engaged in the business of supplying water through hydrants, pipes or tubing, with the use of meters and other such related utility equipment or in a similar manner to consumers within the city.
(Ord. 04-08, passed 2-19-2008) Penalty, see § 923.99