No person shall be permitted to tamper, test, repair, remove, relocate or in any way interfere with any water meter, proportional, indicating or recording device, installed in any building, structure or premises for the control of the water supply thereto, excepting under authority granted by the president of the village and the committee on sewer and water. The owner of the building structure or premises for which such meter is installed, or the person in possession, charge or control thereof, shall be held responsible for any unauthorized tampering and interference, and the water supply to such building, structure or premises shall be cut off, and shall not again be permitted to be turned on until such owner or person shall have paid to the committee on sewer and water the cost and expense of cutting off and turning on such water supply; provided, that where such person can show that such tampering was done contrary to his efforts to prevent same there shall be no such cutting off of the water supply. (Rev. Ord. amended 5-11-1961)