927.12 UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OF SERVICE.

   (a)    No person shall tamper with any gas meter, water meter or electric meter for any product of any of the City's utilities, or with any connection between any such meter and the service or main, or manipulate any connection or part of any such meter so as to cause it to fail to register or to register inaccurately.

   (b)    No person shall make or arrange or permit to be made or arranged any by-pass, shunt or other connection around any such meter by means of which the commodity or service is or might be obtained or taken without being registered on such meter.

   (c)    Except in cases wherein special temporary service connections have been properly authorized and such authorization includes the payment for the product and/or service being determined without a meter, no person shall take or obtain any product or service of any of the City's utilities except through the meter installed by or with the approval of the City to measure such product or service.

   (d)    The Director of Finance, or his designee, shall be responsible for investigating alleged unauthorized taking cases and taking appropriate action--including prosecution if warranted.

(Ord. 2001-12-124. Passed 12-26-01.)