No person shall willfully or carelessly break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any meter, seal, stop cock, curb box, service pipe, hydrant, or other apparatus of the village water distribution system, or prevent any water meter belonging to the village from duly registering the quantity of water passing through the same, or in any way hinder or interfere with its proper action or just registration, or attach any line or pipe to any line belonging to the village. No person, unless he or she is a firefighter or an authorized village employee, shall willfully open or tamper with a fire hydrant. No person other than the Director or an employee of the Department shall turn on water at the curb box or elsewhere after the same shall be turned off by the Department.
(Prior Code, § 540.09) Penalty, see § 10.99