It shall be unlawful for any person to employ any scheme, device, or contrivance for the purpose of evading the proper service and registration on any meter to employ any scheme or device whereby he or she may obtain current which does not pass through the meter furnished him or her by the municipality through its Board of Public Works. Finding lighting apparatus attached to a power meter or any device in or near any meter which causes the same to register incorrectly shall be prima facie evidence of the intent of the occupier of the premise, or of the customer, to convert electric current to his or her own use, which is hereby declared unlawful, and the person convicted of violation of the same shall be punished as hereinafter provided; and, if it shall appear to the Superintendent or his or her agents that any light or power meter shall have been tapped or tampered with, he or she is hereby empowered to install or cause to be installed, at customer’s expense, a meter installed in iron conduit mechanically sealed in closed meter box accessible only to the Superintendent or his or her agents. The Superintendent is also empowered at any time at the expense of the municipality to move any light or power meter to the outside of any building, if, in his or her opinion, it will prove beneficial or advantageous for the municipality to do so.
(1972 Code, § 3-607) Penalty, see § 51.99