(a) No person with intent to injure or defraud shall procure, make or cause to be made any pipe, tube, wire or other conductor of gas, water, sewerage or electric energy and connect the same, or cause it to be connected, with any main, service pipe or other pipe for conducting or supplying gas, water or sewer services or any wires or other conductor of electric energy in such manner as to supply gas, water, sewer services or electric energy to any lamp, motor, burner, orifice or any other device by or at which gas, water, sewer service or electric energy for light, heat or motive services for the purpose of taking therefrom water, sewer services, gas or electric energy with the knowledge of the owner thereof and with intent to evade payment therefor.
(W.Va. Code §61-3-44)
(b) No person with intent to injure or defraud shall connect, or cause to be connected, any pipe, tube, wire, electrical conductor or other instrument with any main service pipe or other pipe or conduit or flume for conducting water, sewerage or with any main, service pipe or other pipe or conduit for conducting gas, or with any main, service wire or other electric conductor used for the purpose of conducting electric energy for light, heat or motive services, for the purpose of taking therefrom water, sewer services, gas or electric energy, without the knowledge of the owner thereof and with intent to evade payment therefor.
(Ord. 320. Passed 5-19-08.)
(c) No person shall make any unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively or otherwise, with any part of a CATV system within the Municipality for the purpose of enabling anyone to receive any television signal, radio signal, picture, sound or other transmission, without payment for the service.
(d) No person, without the consent of the owner, shall willfully tamper with, remove or injure any cables, wires or equipment used for distribution of television signals, radio signals, pictures, sound or other transmission.