925.07. False representations; altering devices; notification of defects.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly make or cause to be made a false or misleading written statement, representation or certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this Title Three.
   (b)   No person shall knowingly render inaccurate any metering or monitoring device or tamper with such device for the purpose of altering, in any way, the accurate recording or measuring of the flows, quantities or substances which such device is intended to record or measure.
   (c)   No person, having reasonable cause to believe that any metering or monitoring device, which is under his supervision or control is, as the result of some defect or damage, functioning improperly or inaccurately recording or measuring flows, quantities or substances, shall knowingly fail to notify the Department of Public Utilities of such malfunction within twenty-four hours of acquiring such knowledge or formulating such belief.
   (d)   Whoever violates subsections (a) and (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates subsection (c) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 30-86. Passed 1-14-86.)