§ 16-48. Tampering with, damaging, or larceny of public utilities or community antenna television system signals.

(a)

It is unlawful for any person to connect or attach any kind of pipe, wire, or other contrivance to any pipe, line, wire, or other conductor carrying gas, water, or electricity and belonging to a public utility (whether publicly or privately owned), in such a manner as to enable him to consume or use the gas, water, or electricity without its passing through the meter or in any other way so as to evade payment therefor. It is unlawful for any person to damage, molest, tamper with, or destroy any pipe, line, wire, meter, or other part of any public utility, including telegraph and telephone systems.

(b)

It is unlawful for any person to damage, molest, tamper with, or destroy, injure, or alter any distribution structure, transmission structure, line, equipment, facility, wire, meter, or other part of any community antenna television system located within the corporate limits of the city.

(c)

Any person who, with intent to defraud, makes or causes to be made any instrument or contrivance and connects the same or causes the same to be connected with any line, wire, meter, distribution structure, transmission structure, equipment or facility laid or constructed for the purpose of conducting and transmitting community antenna television system signals, so as to conduct such community antenna television system signal to a point where the same may be consumed in any manner so as to evade payment therefor, is guilty of the crime of larceny of a community antenna television system signal in violation of this section.

(Code 1966, § 14-49; Code 1982, § 16-48; Ord. No. 1620, § 1, 2-16-1976)

State law reference

Use of services with intent not to pay, 21 O.S. § 1871.