Benefiting from utility service through tampering.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 55-152
in effect§ 55-152. - Benefiting from utility service through tampering.
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(a) Alter, tamper with, injure, or knowingly allow or benefit from the altering, tampering with or injuring of any pipeline, line, wire, conduit, conductor, meter, meter seal, transformer, cart, hydrants, manholes, flumes, or other equipment used by a utility to deliver, measure or register service;
(b) Prevent any installed metering device from measuring or registering correctly the quantity of service provided or passing through such metering, measuring, or registering device;
(c) Make or cause to be made any connection between any pipeline, line, wire, conduit, conductor, meter, meter seal, transformer, cart, hydrant, manhole, flume, or other equipment in such manner as to prevent the correct measurement or registration of service by any metering device or to otherwise use utility service without the consent of the utility; or
(d) Supply or cause to be supplied any utility to any person without such service first passing through the metering device provided by the utility for measuring and registering the quantity of service.
(Ord. No. 25027, § 1, 11-18-14)
Source: City of Oklahoma City, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/oklahoma_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=OKMUCO2020_CH55UT_ARTIVTAUTTHUTSE_S55-152BEUTSETHTAFetched: 10/28/2026