1038.08 ENFORCEMENT.
   It is hereby made the mandatory duty of the City Attorney, committees on the separate public utility systems, and the superintendents thereof, or any of them, to file a proper and sufficient complaint or information in a court of competent jurisdiction against any person who shall willfully and maliciously, deface, mark, impair, cut, tear down, defile, break, injure, remove or destroy any of the public utilities of the City, or any part or portion thereof; or who shall willfully tamper with, alter, adjust or fix any gas or water meter or connection, or make any connection with any gas, water or sewer main or pipe, with the felonious intent to appropriate to that person's use gas, water or sewer service without paying the regular and established rate or charge therefor, for all such gas or water or sewer service so appropriated; or the felonious intent to appropriate to that person's use gas, water or sewer service without paying the established rate therefor, and with intent to defraud the City of such rates, rentals and charges therefor.
(Ord. 2016-01-1. Passed 1-13-16.)