(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to ground or electrically connect any radio, telephone, television, ham radio or any other electrical device to any pipes or appurtenances connected to the discharge side of any water meter, unless either:
(1) A shunt is placed around the water meter to shunt or bypass any electric current which might otherwise flow through the water meter; or
(2) Ten feet or more of water pipe connected to the discharge side of the water meter is buried in moist dirt.
(B) Any shunt placed around a water meter shall be placed so that the water meter may be removed without disturbing same, and no electrical connection whatsoever shall be made to the meter itself, the meter union or meter tail piece. The "tail piece" shall be construed as the short piece of special pipe (often of brass) which is immediately adjacent to the meter and connected thereto by the meter union.
(Ord. 192, passed 2-15-93; Am. Ord. 312, passed 5-17-10) Penalty, see § 52.99