§ 11-35-9. Bypassing electric meter — Use of electricity with intent to defraud.
Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud any person, persons, association,
or corporation generating, conducting, using, or supplying the electric current, either
for the purposes of his, her, its or their own business or for the purpose of selling
the electric current at a stipulated rate of payment, shall make or cause to be made
any wire or other instrument or contrivance and connect it or cause it to be connected
with any electric wire, appliance, apparatus or appurtenance used for or in connection
with the wires or apparatus employed for generating, condu
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§ 11-35-9. Bypassing electric meter — Use of electricity with intent to defraud.
Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud any person, persons, association,
or corporation generating, conducting, using, or supplying the electric current, either
for the purposes of his, her, its or their own business or for the purpose of selling
the electric current at a stipulated rate of payment, shall make or cause to be made
any wire or other instrument or contrivance and connect it or cause it to be connected
with any electric wire, appliance, apparatus or appurtenance used for or in connection
with the wires or apparatus employed for generating, conducting, using, or supplying
electric current, in any manner that is calculated either to waste and dissipate the
electric current or to supply the electric current to any lamp, burner, heater, machine,
motor or other apparatus or appliance whatsoever, without the electric current passing
through a meter provided by the person, persons, association, or corporation and used
for registering the quantity so passing through, or without the consent of the person,
persons, association, or corporation to the connections, or who shall otherwise use
any electric current with the intent to defraud the person, persons, association or
corporation of payment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be imprisoned
not exceeding thirty (30) days or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500).
In any prosecution under this section proof that any of the acts specified in this
section was done on or about the premises occupied by the defendant, or proof of the
presence on or about the premises of any wire or other instrument or contrivance which
effects the waste or dissipation or the diversion of electric current without the
electric current being measured or registered by a meter provided for it or without
the consent of the person, persons, association, or corporation, shall be prima facie
evidence that the defendant committed the acts, or aided or abetted in their commission,
maliciously and with intent to injure or defraud.