Article 16.--TAMPERING WITH UTILITY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE; CIVIL PENALTIES
66-1602.Civil actions for damages.A utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits,authorizes, solicits, aids, abets or attempts any of the following acts:
(a) Diverts, or causes to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever.
(b) Makes, or causes to be made, any connection or reconnection with propertyowned or used by the utility to provide utility service without the authorizationor consent of the utility.
(c) Prevents any utility meter, or other device used in determining thecharge for utility services, from accurately performing its measuring functionby tampering or by any other means.
(d) Tampers with any property owned or used by the utility to provideutility services.
(e) Uses or receives the direct benefit of all, or a portion, of the utilityservice with knowledge of, or reason to believe that, the diversion, tampering,or unauthorized connection existed at the time of the use, or that the useor receipt, was without the authorization or consent of the utility.
(f) Publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked ornonexistent telephone number, credit number or other credit device or methodof numbering or coding which is employed in the issuance of telephone numbers,credit numbers or other credit devices under circumstances evincing an intentto have the telephone number, credit number, credit device or method ofnumbering or coding used to avoid the payment of a lawful charge for anytelecommunication service, or knowing or having reason to believe that thesame may be used to avoid the payment of any such charge.
(g) Obtains credit for or purchases any utility service by the use ofany false, fictitious or counterfeit telephone number, credit number orother credit device, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device without the authority of the person to whom the numberor device was issued, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device knowing that such number or device has been revoked.
(h) Avoids the lawful charges, in whole or in part, for any utility service,by the use of any fraudulent scheme, device, means or method.
Article 16.--TAMPERING WITH UTILITY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE; CIVIL PENALTIES
66-1602.Civil actions for damages.A utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits,authorizes, solicits, aids, abets or attempts any of the following acts:
(a) Diverts, or causes to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever.
(b) Makes, or causes to be made, any connection or reconnection with propertyowned or used by the utility to provide utility service without the authorizationor consent of the utility.
(c) Prevents any utility meter, or other device used in determining thecharge for utility services, from accurately performing its measuring functionby tampering or by any other means.
(d) Tampers with any property owned or used by the utility to provideutility services.
(e) Uses or receives the direct benefit of all, or a portion, of the utilityservice with knowledge of, or reason to believe that, the diversion, tampering,or unauthorized connection existed at the time of the use, or that the useor receipt, was without the authorization or consent of the utility.
(f) Publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked ornonexistent telephone number, credit number or other credit device or methodof numbering or coding which is employed in the issuance of telephone numbers,credit numbers or other credit devices under circumstances evincing an intentto have the telephone number, credit number, credit device or method ofnumbering or coding used to avoid the payment of a lawful charge for anytelecommunication service, or knowing or having reason to believe that thesame may be used to avoid the payment of any such charge.
(g) Obtains credit for or purchases any utility service by the use ofany false, fictitious or counterfeit telephone number, credit number orother credit device, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device without the authority of the person to whom the numberor device was issued, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device knowing that such number or device has been revoked.
(h) Avoids the lawful charges, in whole or in part, for any utility service,by the use of any fraudulent scheme, device, means or method.
Article 16.--TAMPERING WITH UTILITY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE; CIVIL PENALTIES
66-1602.Civil actions for damages.A utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits,authorizes, solicits, aids, abets or attempts any of the following acts:
(a) Diverts, or causes to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever.
(b) Makes, or causes to be made, any connection or reconnection with propertyowned or used by the utility to provide utility service without the authorizationor consent of the utility.
(c) Prevents any utility meter, or other device used in determining thecharge for utility services, from accurately performing its measuring functionby tampering or by any other means.
(d) Tampers with any property owned or used by the utility to provideutility services.
(e) Uses or receives the direct benefit of all, or a portion, of the utilityservice with knowledge of, or reason to believe that, the diversion, tampering,or unauthorized connection existed at the time of the use, or that the useor receipt, was without the authorization or consent of the utility.
(f) Publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked ornonexistent telephone number, credit number or other credit device or methodof numbering or coding which is employed in the issuance of telephone numbers,credit numbers or other credit devices under circumstances evincing an intentto have the telephone number, credit number, credit device or method ofnumbering or coding used to avoid the payment of a lawful charge for anytelecommunication service, or knowing or having reason to believe that thesame may be used to avoid the payment of any such charge.
(g) Obtains credit for or purchases any utility service by the use ofany false, fictitious or counterfeit telephone number, credit number orother credit device, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device without the authority of the person to whom the numberor device was issued, or by the use of any telephone number, credit numberor other credit device knowing that such number or device has been revoked.
(h) Avoids the lawful charges, in whole or in part, for any utility service,by the use of any fraudulent scheme, device, means or method.
