§ 53.20 INTERFERENCE WITH SEWAGE FLOW; UNAUTHORIZED CONNECTIONS.
   (A)   No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust or interfere with a valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stop cock, meter or other regulator, operating or measuring device or appliance in or attached to the tanks, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes or other pipes or apparatus of the sewage disposal system of the city, with intent to interfere with the flow of sewage or to injure or destroy such property. No person shall tap, sever, open or make unauthorized connections with a main or pipe used or intended for the transmission of sewage.
(R.C. § 4933.24)
   (B)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree
(R.C. § 4933.99(B)) ('65 Code, § 931.07)