§ 37-12-116 — Electricity; wiring around electric meter

Any person who connects or changes any wire, cord, socket, motor
or other instrument, device, or contrivance with any wire,
transmitting or supplying or intended to transmit or supply
electricity to any house, store, or other building, without the
knowledge and consent of the person or corporation owning said
wire, in such manner as to transmit or supply any such
electricity to any globe, lamp, heating apparatus or other
instrument by or at which electricity is consumed, around or
without passing through the meter provided for measuring or
registering the amount or quantity of electricity passing
through it, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished
as provided in section 4 hereof.